ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS TEST

Ethics and economics are linked because

• Both disciplines deal with how we value and perceive our environment.

• Ethics is what makes economics which then influences our decisions about the environment.

• Economics is what influences ethics which in turn affects our decisions.

• Economics and ethics are not linked in any way.

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Anthropogenic Ethics deals with

• The value animals place on plants.

• The value of animals in nature.

• The value humans place on nature.

• Species interactions in nature.

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Biocentric ethics is concerned with

• Species numbers and their extinction.

• Rights of nature or species equivalence.

• Rights of animals.

• Factors that may facilitate extinction of a species.

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Anthropocentric Ethics is concerned with

• Plant welfare

• Animal welfare

• Human welfare

• Abiotic factors and welfare.

The two possible types of ethicists are

• Generalists and universalists.

• Relativists and universalists.

• Relativists and ethicists.

• Universalists and activists.

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?

• biocentricism

• ecocentricism

• environmental anthropocentricism

• Human ethics

Which of the following explains why it is important to study environmental ethics?

• 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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Ecocentricism is not part of environmental ethics.

• Yes

• No

 __________The view that all environmental responsibility is derived from human interests alone.

• Biocentrism
• Ecofeminism
• Anthropocentrism
• Deep Ecology

The variety of life in the world, a habitat, or an ecosystem

• biodiversity
• ecosystem
• mutations
• diversity

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