UPSC Ethics by VK IAS

✅GS3- Agriculture- Cropping patterns- Restructuring our food systems for a healthy world- click here Example of how food systems are linked with anthropogenic disruptions -Click here Lab grown meat for protein- Click here Governance measures to reduce food wastage and increasing food security - Click here and here and FAO food wastage stats How land use is linked to food production- New set of ethics involved in the idea of sustainability - Click here

✅Gs3- conservation- Man- animal conflict The first motivation behind this channel was to just maintain a repository for all the positive news for myself and that's how the first post on the channel was about Man- animal conflict.... This ghastly incident reminds me of the burial of nilgai when IT was ALIVE..... Nilgai buried alive A person I know casually responded that... "Hota hai yaar, ab hum kya kar sakte hai.. they had no choice as it was destroying their crops" This is not a call for being an animal rights activist. It's just that If this doesn't affect you a bit... Or if you are reducing this news to just a "current affairs" material... - in the lexicon of civil services syllabus- you lack empathy (GS-4 : Ethics)🙏 . I would end this post here... You all prepare for this exam, you must have prepared environment syllabus- you know what just happened. Just note down your own thoughts to know yourself better. I rest my case here. Sorry for the long post. Pc : Satish acharya- Cartoonist

Gs-4 Ethics -Attitude Power of an apology -George flyod case- Great example What do you mean by a national apology? ✅If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred”~ Gandhi. (1929)

GS3- Disaster Management The East Punjab Agricultural Pests, Diseases and Noxious Weeds Act, 1949- Implications GS4- Ethics- ENvironmental ethics- The ethos of environmental conservation must be mainstreamed- otherwise more such events will occur

Take away from the article : 1)Using Justice khanna as an Ethics casestudy- example of professional integrity and having a futuristic vision that stands by the values of democracy. 2) ADM jabalpur case details.

Take away from the article : 1)Using Justice khanna as an Ethics casestudy- example of professional integrity and having a futuristic vision that stands by the values of democracy. 2) ADM jabalpur case details.

GS4- Ethics- Attitude- Persuasion as a tool for enforcing behavioral change ✅✅Q) What do you understand by behavioral change? How is it Important for COVID-19 crisis? Note : There is a chapter in prev economic survey on nudge theory and behavioral change- please have a look at it

Important for Essay : COVID -19 Impact on 1) Society- Institution of family- How will it affect family bonds, Impact on Older generation- their mental health- parents are happy to spend time with their kids Women's dimension- The silent pandemic- Domestic violence 3) On environment- Reports of clear skies and Himalayan mountains 4) On Technology- How Technology should serve human needs rather than the other way around 5)Ethics- Most important dimension that questioned all our belief systems and values- Your thoughts?

✅Gs3- Role of media ✅GS-4 Media ethics Click here for a prelims question

✅✅Gs4 - Attitudes- importance of communication for policy effectiveness. GS4- Role of media and media ethics Considering the answer trends here before posting this, dont you think media has a larger role in shaping our attitudes? If a majority of UPSC aspirants can get this wrong, I dont blame Mr. Bacchan. the Indian variety of bats are different from the carriers of Covid-19. PS : Although bats are unwelcomed guests, don't go around destroying their habitats🙂 Edit : you may forget the link between bats and covid -19.. but incidents like these help us in reinforcing our memory. So will readymade content work for everyone? Maybe..maybe not. This is an easier way to remember the facts in a context. I hope I make sense.