Exam 7: The Environment

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A) pricing mechanisms
B) government subsidies
C) a laissez-faire approach
D) regulations

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A) environmental preservation is inherently valuable.
B) the Grand Canyon is valuable only because people care about it.
C) we have a strong, almost absolute obligation to preserve species from extinction.
D) future people have no interests that we need to respect now.
E) nature has value in and of itself, apart from human beings.

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A) Tropical forests are the earth's richest, oldest, and most complex ecosystems.
B) Because of technological breakthroughs, people living in developed countries put less strain on the environment than do people in poorer countries.
C) There are only about 1000 species of animals left in the world.
D) The United States consumes only its proportional share of the world's irreplaceable natural resources.

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A) is influenced by value judgments.
B) considers only short-term effects.
C) values costs over benefits.
D) is a value-free social-scientific approach.

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A) we have no genuine moral obligations to future generations.
B) future people have a right to be born.
C) the U.S. uses more than its proportional share of the world's resources.
D) environmental protection is always a static trade-off, with a fixed economic price to be paid for the gains we want.

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A) future generations of people have a right to be born.
B) future generations have no moral rights.
C) we have no duties to future generations.
D) the rights of future generations are contingent upon those people coming into existence.

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