IB ESS 1.1 Environmental Values Systems

Who wrote the book Silent Spring, considered by many to have been key in the banning of DDT and the formation of the US Environmental Protection Agency?

Which of these could be considered inputs into an EVS?

• Education

• Culture

• Evaluations and decisions

• Media

• Consistent Actions

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What term would be used to denote the value something has because it exists, rather than due to what it does or how it can be used by humans?

James Lovelock was an early environmentalist who developed what theory that considered the whole planet to act as one complex system that maintains conditions required for life?

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Which EVS would argue that humans must sustainably manage the global system through taxes, regulation and legislation.

Which EVS would prioritise biorights and emphasise local level solutions based on self-restraint and education.

Which EVS would argue that environmental problems can be overcome by new technology?

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Which of the following positions could be consistent with an ecocentric worldview?

• Deep ecologists

• Cornucopian

• Biocentrists

• Stewardship

• Self-sufficiency

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The use of genetically modified organisms in agriculture would suggest which viewpoint?

• Technocentric

• Ecocentric

• Anthropocentric

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Educational campaigning to reduce meat consumption would suggest which viewpoint?

• Technocentric

• Ecocentric

• Anthropocentric

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