Environmental Worldviews

According to the ____, all species have value as participating members of the biosphere, regardless of their potential or actual use to humans.

• human-centered environmental worldview

• Earth-centered environmental worldview

• life-centered environmental worldview

• stewardship environmental worldview

• planetary management environmental worldview

Your ____________________ is your set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be.

• ecological mindset

• point-of-view

• environmental worldview

• mathematical worldview

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Major causes of the environmental problems we face are ____________________, wasteful and unsustainable resource use, poverty, failure to include the harmful environmental and health costs of goods and services in their market prices, and increasing isolation from nature.

• uncaring people

• increased human population

• fake news

• big business and politicians

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What has happened to the human population in the last 1,000 years?

• we have reduced environmental degradation

• we have experienced exponential growth

• we have established full cost pricing

• we have controlled climate change

How does one's environmental worldview affect ones attitude toward living sustainably? Choose the INCORRECT option.

• A human-centered worldview sees the natural world as a support system for human life.

• According to the life-centered worldview, all species have value in fulfilling their particular role within the biosphere

• An animal-centered worldview holds that the animals will inherit the Earth after humans have destroyed themselves with resource depletion, pollution, and environmental degradation

• The Earth-centered worldview maintains that people are part of, and dependent on, nature. It maintains that Earth’s natural capital exists for all species, not just for humans

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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

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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

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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