Exam 14: Technology and the Environment

Those who risk their reputations,livelihood,and sometimes their lives,in order to reveal dangers in technology or the use of technology,are known as __________.

U.S policy makers and legislators were not convinced that there was a need for stricter enforcement of mandatory emission limits;they prefer the creation of markets to buy and sell pollution credits,a system otherwise known as __________.

William F.Ogburn concluded that some parts of culture (such as technology)change more rapidly than other parts (such as norms and values),creating a lack of adjustment or gap between these parts.This reflects Ogburn's concept of __________.

What is "whistle blowing"? Why do people do this and what typically happens when they do?

Daniel Bell defines __________ as the combination of all methods for increasing the productivity of labor and capital.

The United States currently produces about __________ percent of its electricity in nuclear power plants.

Which of the following is NOT a concept that is basic to understanding environmental stress?

As of 2002,United States has __________ tons of spent nuclear fuel and other nuclear wastes.

In a famous series of experiments conducted at Yale University,_____________ studied the conditions under which people forsake the universally shared moral injunction against doing harm to another person in order to obey the instructions of someone in a position of authority.

The earth's resources are finite;only a certain number of a given species can inhabit an environment.These are examples of a concept that is basic to understanding environmental stress,which is __________.

Which of the following exacerbated the circumstances that led to the BP-Deep Horizon oil Disaster in 2010?

__________ is the very small but growing social movement that advocates the ethical use fo technologies to enhance human capabilities..

What are the major contributors to water pollution? How do they affect human beings,the economy,and the ecosystem?

Explain how land degradation,noise,chemical hazards,and large-scale engineering projects threaten the well being of the earth and its inhabitants.

Frances Adeola is a sociologist who studies __________.

Environmental __________ refers to the presence of toxic agents in the environment in kinds and qualities potentially damaging to humans or to other organisms.

Advances in technology can have both positive and negative impacts.The text refers to this as __________.

Oil,detergents,pesticides,and plant nutrients are all important agents in __________.

Langdon Winner identifies three dimensions of technology,which are __________.

Langdon Winner uses the term __________ in referring to the dimension of technology that involves technical skills,procedures,etc.,which involve behavior directed toward a step-by-step,rational method of doing things.