Exam 25: Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability

Which of the following worldviews would include the concept that when we use the earth's natural capital we are borrowing from the earth and from future generations?

Research suggests we need only convince ____________________% of the people in a country or in the world to bring about major social change.

The concept that we have an ethical responsibility to be caring and responsible managers of the earth is associated with the ____________________ worldview.

Voluntary simplicity, a growing movement in the developed world, would include all of the following except?

Technological fixes, such as being more efficient in resource use, have been able to keep up with expansion of global resource use.

Most people with a life-centered worldview believe we have an ethical responsibility to avoid causing the premature extinction of species.

Those who adhere to the free-market worldview suggest that all public property resources should be converted to private property resources.

Once an environmental or climate change tipping point is reached, there is no going back and neither money nor technology will save us from the consequences.

Which of the following is not one of the human activities having the greatest harmful impact on the environment?

The environmental wisdom worldview believes we should talk about saving the earth because the earth is in need of saving.

A formal environmental education is important, but it is not enough to solve the problems with the degradation of nature.

Some critics think one of the following worldviews will not work because it is based on increased degradation and depletion of the earth's capital, and it focuses on short-term economic benefits with little regard for long term harmful consequences.Which worldview does this best represent?

Some analysts suggest the need to continually acquire "more and more goods" should be treated as an addiction. Do you agree? What difference would it make if we did treat it as an addiction? Is this an addiction that we would be willing to work on?

Some affluent people in more-developed countries have adopted a lifestyle of ____________________, in which they seek to live with much less than they are accustomed to having.

In the planetary management worldview, the potential for economic growth is ____________________.

Which of the following believes we can solve any environmental, population, or resource problem with more economic growth and development, better management, and better technology?

What was the major point learned in the 1991 Biosphere 2 experiment?

Which of the following understands the earth to be a complex machine that we can understand, dominate, change, and manage for everyone's good without overloading natural systems?

Environmental leaders say it is time for an ____________________ to change the way we treat the earth.

Which of the following is not a human-centered worldview?