Exam 7: The Environment

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Which of the following is a drawback to the regulatory approach?

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According to Joel Feinberg,future generations of people have a right to be born.

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Cost-benefit analysis is a device used to determine whether it's worthwhile to incur a particular cost.

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A decade after wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone Park their presence was discovered to

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Business has considered the environment to be

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The rising affluence of people in the United States has meant a corresponding decrease in pollution and its attendant environmental problems in the United States.

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What's a "free rider"?

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Cost-benefit analysis

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Three approaches have gained the most attention when it comes to achieving our environmental goals: the use of regulations,incentives,and pricing mechanisms.

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Environmental protection is always a static trade-off,with a fixed economic price to be paid for the gains we want.

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William T.Blackstone rejects the idea that each person has a human right to a livable environment on the grounds that it is technically infeasible.

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Is there ever a time that a business can say that it will not abide by environmental regulations or requests?  Describe those conditions.

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According to Cambridge University biologist Andrew Balmford,the loss of nature's services is always outweighed by the benefits of development.

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The "tragedy of the commons" is

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According to Holmes Rolston III,

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A moral vegetarian

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Utilitarians

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Any equitable solution to the problem of who should pay the bill for environmental cleanup should take into account responsibility as well as benefit.

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According to Joel Feinberg,future generations

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The term ecology refers to the science of the

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