Chapter 12: Living in the Just Ecological Society

Question 1

A-B Split

Answer 1

There is often a sharp disjunction between what people profess to value and believe and how they act

Question 2

smart growth

Answer 2

structuring real estate development so that what gets built uses land efficiently, promotes community, builds tax base, and is beautiful enough that people will want to live there.

Question 3

Conservation land trusts

Answer 3

They assist with the permanent limitation of land to certain uses (known as an easement), although ownership continues to belong to an individual.

Question 4

Community land trusts

Answer 4

nonprofit corporations that hold land for the benefit of a community to provide affordable access to land and housing.

Question 5

Anthropocentric environmentalism

Answer 5

suggests that we consider our own interests first in our interactions with the environment and that we consider the environment’s interests to gain our own.

Question 6

Ecocentric environmentalism

Answer 6

suggests that we consider the environment as a moral entity and with its own beauty and that we see ourselves as part of that moral entity.

Question 7

Anthropocentric environmentalism believes

Answer 7

If you treat the environment well, it will treat us well in return; a solidarity of interests.

Question 8

Egocentric environmentalism recognizes

Answer 8

the importance of “respect for nature”.