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EnvironmentalScience
Question | Answer |
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What is environmental science? | The study of both the science and social aspects of human interaction with the environment |
What is an ecosystem? | Where living and nonliving environment interact |
Define wilderness | An environment that is unchanged by man |
What are the two main problems in the Diverse South? | Poverty and unwise development of the coastline |
Name 3 changes from the re-introducing of wolves to Yellowstone | -Elk population grew -Coyote population decreased -Beaver population increased |
Define Ethics | What is right and wrong |
What is Environmental Justice? | People with the most money, produce the most amount of waste, leaving the impoverished to deal with it |
What does sustainable development mean? | Middle ground that seeks to help the environment while at the same time creating jobs |
What is Natural Capitalism? | Businesses can both expand their production and help the environment |
Purpose of the Kyoto Summit | Get countries to work together on saving the environment |
Anthropocentrism | Human-centered ethics |
Biocentrism | Life-centered ethics |
Ecocentrism | The environment deserves moral consideration |
Developmental | The most anthropocentric. Assumes that earth exists for human's benefit and pleasure |
Preservationist | Most ecocentric. Want to see large portions of nature preserved in tact Nature has its own value apart from humans |
Conservationist | Balance between and preservation and developmental Wants to promote humans and the environment |