According to JD, which is more responsible for environmental destruction, population growth or consumption patterns? JD says that sustainable development will require a reduction of consumption as well as more efficient use and slowing growth in human numbers. How feasible or likely do you think this is? What are aims of sustainable development? Summarize the thinking of the ecological economist Herman Daly: What does sustainable [steady state] economics require? JD concludes the chapter with Mark Sagoff’s view about the dangers of basing environmentalism on a concern about scarcity. What is his basic concern in this regared? What does Sagoff suggest, instead, the way to replace an emphasis on scarcity and overconsumption with a approach? How you respond to the questions posed on 91-92? Key Terms: psychological egoism, ecological economics Ch 5: Responsibilities to the Natural World: from anthropocentric to ethics (94-118) What is LD50 testing? What is involved in the production of veal. Did you know? According to JD, do Western philosophical and theological traditions direct responsibilities to the natural environment? RENE DESCARTES What is his philosophy, and that of his progeny called, what is the criterion for moral standing with such views)? What are the criteria most often used to establish moral standing in western philosophical ethics? LYNN WHITE What did Lynn White say about Western theological traditions? JEREMY BENTHAM Who was the philosopher whose views have provided a basis for animal liberationist philosophies, and what sort of philosophy was it?
According to JD, which is more responsible for environmental destruction, population growth or consumption patterns? JD says that sustainable development will require a reduction of consumption as well as more efficient use and slowing growth in human numbers. How feasible or likely do you think this is? What are aims of sustainable development? Summarize the thinking of the ecological economist Herman Daly: What does sustainable [steady state] economics require? JD concludes the chapter with Mark Sagoff’s view about the dangers of basing environmentalism on a concern about scarcity. What is his basic concern in this regared? What does Sagoff suggest, instead, the way to replace an emphasis on scarcity and overconsumption with a approach? How you respond to the questions posed on 91-92? Key Terms: psychological egoism, ecological economics Ch 5: Responsibilities to the Natural World: from anthropocentric to ethics (94-118) What is LD50 testing? What is involved in the production of veal. Did you know? According to JD, do Western philosophical and theological traditions direct responsibilities to the natural environment? RENE DESCARTES What is his philosophy, and that of his progeny called, what is the criterion for moral standing with such views)? What are the criteria most often used to establish moral standing in western philosophical ethics? LYNN WHITE What did Lynn White say about Western theological traditions? JEREMY BENTHAM Who was the philosopher whose views have provided a basis for animal liberationist philosophies, and what sort of philosophy was it?
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