WorksheetsEnvironmental Worldviews
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
Which worldview is exemplified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the management of refuges protecting habitats and breeding areas for waterfowl and big game?
no-problem school
free-market school
planetary management
environmental wisdom
stewardship
What statement best describes a major assumption of the planetary management worldview?
Human economies and other systems are subsystems of the earth’s life-support systems.
Humans are the most important and dominant species.
Resources are limited and should not be wasted.
We have an ethical responsibility to be stewards of the earth.
We must discourage earth-degrading forms of economic growth.
Which term is synonymous with an anthropocentric worldview?
self-centered
life-centered
human-centered
ecosystem-centered
earth-centered
Studying the earth’s living systems to find out what works and what lasts, and then looking at how we might copy such earth wisdom, is a pioneering science called ____.
biosimulation
bioimitation
biomimicry
biofascimile
bioreplication
Which of the following could be an agent of change that contributes to more sustainable living?
increased product consumption
environmental literacy
proliferate use of natural capital
less stringent pollution controls
diminished dependency on wind energy
Which statement most supports the ethical guidelines for living more sustainably?
Reducing the earth's natural capital will be offset by new technologies.
The earth's capacity for self-repair is without bounds.
Resources are available for man’s ultimate needs.
Increasing energy needs can be met through innovation.
Climate-disrupting activities should be minimized.
What is one of the components of a sustainability revolution?
population stabilization
consume and throw away
fossil fuels as a primary energy source
high resource utilization
reduced biodiversity
Which action is characteristic of voluntary simplicity?
learning to live with much less
working more to provide for more family wants
using products with greater environmental impact
adding more possessions that last longer
increasing adoption in underdeveloped societies
What is an example of reducing our ecological footprints?
buying inorganic foods
decreasing mass transit use
increasing meat consumption
incorporating adequate ventilation in houses
sharing tools and other consumer goods
A characteristic of exponential growth is that the growth ____.
increases at a steady rate over time
increases very rapidly at first and then slowly continues to climb
increases very rapidly at first and then plateaus
starts off slowly, but at some point, increases at a very rapid rate
starts at a very high rate and gradually declines over time
The Biosphere 2 experiment was a complete success.
True
False
About three-fourths of the United States federal public land is in Alaska.
True
False
The no-problem school worldview is part of the environmental wisdom worldview.
True
False
