Exam 13: Environmental Ethics

If Peter Singer's zoocentrist view is correct, then the practice of ________ would be impermissible.

According to Peter Singer, the pain suffered by a human is ________ important than that experienced by a nonhuman animal.

The view called ________ says that, when considering our moral obligations to the environment, the good of the whole should always outweigh the good of an individual.

Which philosopher maintains that we must include the interests of all sentient creatures and give their interests equal weight when calculating which action will produce the greatest overall satisfaction of interests?

If Kant's anthropocentric view is correct, then using animals in horrifically painful medical experiments would be permissible as long as the experiments served human needs.

The notion that only humans have moral status is called ________.

The questions of whether an ape has the same moral status as a domestic cow and if animals (human and nonhuman) deserve the same level of moral concern as plants concern the issue(s) of

The anthropocentrist necessarily has no regard for the environment.

In both zoocentrism and biocentrism, the fundamental unit of moral consideration is the individual animal or plant.

To some, the fact that we value the beauty of Niagara Falls shows that we

Suppose environmentalists want to prevent the disappearance of glaciers in Glacier National Park, which are melting away at an alarming rate. One report claims that slowing global warming can help prevent the melting, which would be accomplished by creating better fuel efficiency for cars and stronger energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances. Laws passed to implement these higher standards would necessarily reflect a belief that glaciers have moral status.

If you were a species nonegalitarian, you would likely believe that

The controversy over the ivory-billed woodpecker has pitted those who want to build a massive irrigation project against environmentalists who want to stop the project to protect the woodpecker and other species. A biocentric species egalitarian would probably insist that the

Which anthropocentric philosopher said, "Animals . . . are there merely as means to an end. That end is man"?

A counterexample to biocentric egalitarianism is that we

The difficulty underlying the moral dilemma of climate change boils down to what obligations, if any, we have to future generations.

A ________ holds the view that all living entities have moral status, whether sentient or not.

One who believes that some living things have greater moral status than others is known as a species ________.

Those who believe that nature possesses instrumental value only are likely to believe that a forest has value only because of its economic worth.

In disputes about environmental issues, often there is substantial agreement on the nonmoral facts and serious divergence on