Environmental Ethics

Sustainability is making sure that the planet and its resources can continue to provide life.

• True

• False

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What has happened to resource consumption in the last several hundred years?

• it has remained at the same level
• it has decreased dramatically
• it has decreased only slightly
• it has increased dramatically

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A set of moral principles or values held by a person or a society is called

• ethics
• culture
• justice
• biocentrism

Which of the following gives value to all living things, both human and nonhuman, but has humans at the top of the hierarchy?

• biocentrism

• environmentalism

• anthropocentrism

• ecocentrism

A human-centered view of our relationship with the environment is known as

• biocentrism
• environmentalism
• anthropocentrism
• ecocentrism

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Which of these is not a philosophical approach to ecology.

• anthropocentrism
• ecocentrism
• biocentrism
• bioegalitarianism

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

• biodiversity
• ecosystem
• mutations
• diversity

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

• Biocentrism
• Ecofeminism
• Anthropocentrism
• Deep Ecology

_________Assumes that the human race is and should be master of nature and that the Earth and its resources exist solely for our benefit and pleasure.

• Deep Ecology
• Development Approach
• External Costs
• Environmental Economics

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_________ _______Tends to strike a balance between unrestrained development and preservation.

• Forrest Ethics

• Conservationist Approach

• Sustainable Development

• Environmental Justice

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