Environmental Policy

Why do common resources get abused?

• They are found near densely populated cities

• Nobody owns them but anybody can use them

• They have very high biodiversity

• They are vulnerable to forest fires

Why might an anthropocentrist try to save a forest from being cut down?

• Because it helps keep atmospheric gases in balance

• Because it is home to many species of animals

• Because she enjoys walking through it with her friends

• Because the saplings (baby trees) are innocent

Where are most hazardous coal ash dump sites located?

• In crowded eastern states

• In spacious western states

• In rich northern states

• In poor southern states

Which region was historically covered in grasslands, and now suffers from environmental problems like soil erosion and water polluted by excessive nutrients?

• Agricultural middle

• Dry west

• Industrial northeast

• Diverse south

Which natural resource in the eastern USA requires the cooperation of many states to keep it healthy?

• Florida everglades

• Chesapeake bay

• New Jersey Pine barrens

• Okefenokee swamp

Ecocentrism is the belief that:

• the environment exists to provide humans with natural resources

• humans are just one part of an environment which is intrinsically valuable

• humans and animals share the environment with equal rights to existence

• the environment is made up of winners and losers

What event began the national environmental justice movement in 1982?

• A bill reintroducing segregation in former confederate states

• The formation of the federal office of environmental equity

• Building a coal ash dump site in Georgia

• Protests over a toxic landfill in North Carolina