Ch.5 ENVA

Question 1

Environmental Ethics

Answer 1

What are the right/wrong ways of acting toward the non-human world?

Question 2

“Dominion Thesis”

Answer 2

Humans should control nature and use it how they wish

Question 3

Leopold’s Land Ethic

Answer 3

Argues that something is right f it promotes healthy ecosystem functioning, and wrong when it doesn’t

Question 4

Ecocentrism

Answer 4

Ecological concerns should come before human concerns

Question 5

Ecology

Answer 5

The study of the interactions between organisms and their environment

Question 6

Moral Extensionism

Answer 6

The expansion of ethics beyond humans to land, plants, animals, etc.

Question 7

Intrinsic Value

Answer 7

Seeking to eliminate symptoms rather than the causes

Question 8

Utilitarian

Answer 8

Someone who believes that actions are right if they benefit the majority

Question 9

Antropocentrism

Answer 9

The belief that humans alone posses intrinsic value

Question 10

Conservation

Answer 10

Resources can be used as long as they are managed for “sustained yield”