Exam 7: The Environment

An assessment of costs and benefits inevitably involves

Cost-benefit analyses of rival environmental policies inevitably involve making value judgments about nonmonetary costs and benefits.

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

Some environmental regulations (like forbidding the burning of coal in cities) benefit each and every one of us because the air we all breather is cleaner. If an individual ignores the regulation and burns coal, while others obey the regulation, then he or she

The philosopher Tom Regan

A moral of Garrett Hardin's parable "The Tragedy of the Commons" is that there can be a difference between the private costs and the social costs of a business activity.

When it comes to the protecting animal interests, the United States is far ahead of Europe.

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

Business has considered the environment to be

According to Holmes Rolston III,

The international fishing industry as it exists today gives us good reason to reject the moral of Garrett Hardin's "Parable of the Commons."

Advocates of a "naturalistic ethic" believe that penguins are important only because people like them.

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

The word "ecosystem" refers to a total ecological community, both living and non-living.

Which of the following is true concerning our environment today?

Moral vegetarians are people who reject the eating of meat on moral grounds.

Regulation is always the most effective way to allocate the costs of environmental protection.

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

William F. Baxter addresses environmental ethics by noting

An ordinary example of an ecosystem is a pond.