Chapter 25 Environmental Ethics, Worldviews, and Sustainability

What was the major point learned in the 1991 Biosphere 2 experiment?

• We should focus on recycling waste and wastewater.

• We should learn how to grow a rainforest in an enclosed area to life-support.

• We must be aware that CO₂ recycling is really difficult.

• We cannot engineer life-supporting systems as well as those provided by nature.

• We must admit that extinction is inevitable.

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Which worldview understands the earth to be a complex machine that we can understand, dominate, change, and manage for everyone's good without overloading natural systems?

• spaceship-earth school

• free-market school

• deep ecology school

• biocentric philosophy

• stewardship principle

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Which worldview is based on a belief that the best way to manage the planet for human benefit involves minimal government interference and regulation?

• no-problem school

• free-market school

• spaceship-earth school

• stewardship

• ecocentrism

What are the three major environmental worldviews?

• planetary management, biosphere management, and environmental wisdom

• natural capital, biosphere management, and stewardship

• stewardship, federal management, and environmental wisdom

• environmental wisdom, ethical sustainability, natural capital

• planetary management, stewardship, and environmental wisdom

Part of the environmental wisdom worldview proposes that success involves ____.

• managing the earth's systems for ourselves

• managing the earth by dominating, changing, and managing the earth for everyone

• economic growth, development, better management, and technology

• learning how nature sustains itself and integrating this into our actions

• understanding nature to dominate, change, and manage it

What idea aligns most with the earth-centered worldview?

• Federal lands should be opened for greater commercial development.

• Humans are in charge of the world.

• Preventing the depletion natural capital is a key to promoting sustainability.

• Human economies and systems are dependent on human innovation.

• Natural resources can be considered unlimited.

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Which approach proposes that we can solve any environmental, population, or resource problem with more economic growth and development, better management, and better technology?

• no-problem school

• human centered school

• environmental wisdom

• free-market school

• planetary management

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What environmental worldview is seen by critics as focused on short-term economic benefits with little regard for long term harmful consequences?

• no-problem school

• human centered school

• environmental wisdom

• free-market school

• planetary management

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Which worldview proposes that when we use the earth's natural capital, we are borrowing from the earth and from future generations?

• planetary management

• stewardship

• free-market school

• spaceship-earth school

• environmental wisdom

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Which statement aligns most with the environmental wisdom worldview?

• Our success depends on learning how nature sustains itself.

• Humans can manage nature to meet our increasing needs and wants.

• Resources are essentially unlimited.

• Sustaining nature depends on the ingenuity of humans.

• Human inventiveness and technology will prevent depletion of resources.

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