Environmental Ethics

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Which major theory of environmental ethics holds that the environment deserves a kind of direct moral consideration that is not merely derived from human (or animal) interests?

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biocentricism

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Which of the following explains why it is important to study environmental ethics? Options: The environment is not important for humans because we have the ability to use things. Preserving the environment is part of our value system. Environmental preservation is a scientific process and ethics has no place in it. Ethical considerations should only be about issues of morality and not the environment.

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Preserving the environment is part of our value system.

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Ecocentricism is not part of environmental ethics.

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No

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Which of the following does not fit into a preservation ethic attitude towards the environment?
nature has intrinsic value,
continual change and human progress is good in itself,
a reverence for life and respect for the rights of all creatures,
human species depend on, and learn from nature

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continual change and human progress is good in itself

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Many modern, industrial societies share a belief in economic growth and resource exploitation.

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True

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Which of the following is the most likely reason a corporation would pollute the environment? Options: corporate executives show callous disregard for the environment., the corporation is a legal entity interested primarily in profitability for its shareholders, not in environmental protection, the corporation looks at its pollution as residues of the production process, rather than as wastes, the corporation is only interested in making decisions that have a positive long-term impact on society.

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the corporation is a legal entity interested primarily in profitability for its shareholders, not in environmental protection

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Which of the following environmental issue requires immediate attention? Climate change, Fracking, Green energy, Flooding

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Climate change, Fracking, Flooding

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The fact that toxic waste facilities are disproportionately sited in minority and poor communities in the United States is an example of

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environmental injustice.