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ECCC Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the four pillars? | IRIS: Intersectionality, Role of State, Indispensability, Scale, |
| What is Intersectionality? | Recognizing how social categories, including the more-than-human world, overlap and intersect with each other to perpetuate discrimination. |
| What is Role of State? | State power often maintains inequalities (e.g. institutional racism, redlining), hence the role of state is asking how much power the state should have. |
| What is Indispensability | Recognizing that all members of a system have value and a right to contribute to the system. It emphasizes collective responsibility and forbids anything that restricts ones ability to contribute. |
| What is Scale? | Scale asks what percentage or amount of existence we are looking at, in terms of spatial (e.g. local vs global), temporal (e.g. future generations), or size (i.e. who/how many). |
| What are the 8 arguments for preserving biodiversity? | Scientific, aesthetic, cultural, economic, ecological, evolutionary, ethical, emotional |
| Explain scientific | It could hold new insights |
| Explain aesthetic | It is beautiful |
| Explain cultural | It holds cultural significance |
| Explain economic | It generates money |
| Explain ecological | It is important to a particular ecosystem |
| Explain evolutionary | It holds important links to the past |
| Explain ethical | It has inherent value |
| Explain emotional | It is cute or otherwise endeared by humans |