Deck 13: Sport and the Environment

Question 1

Which of the following describes the 'deep ecology' approach to enivronmentalism?

A) Market intervention, e.g. environmental taxes, tradeable pollution rights plus voluntary agreements plus regulation.
B) Based on ecocentrism, intrinsic value in nature. Sport is not above nature.
C) Preservationism, NIMBYism, stewardship of nature. Sport as part of natural nurture management programmes would support the notion of sporting estates.
D) Looks to both humanism and ecocentrism, based on anarchist and feminist principles.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT an observation of the anti-golf movement manifesto.

A) Golf course development facilitates water depletion and toxic contamination to such an extent that the golf green is fraught with ecological problems.
B) The golf industry is falsely promoting the notion of pesticide-free, environmentally friendly golf courses in the knowledge that such a golf course does not exist.
C) A shift to artificial surfaces for golf courses would reduce the environmental impact of the sport.
D) Golf courses and golf tourism are part of a global package that is capitalist-orientated, with most of the money arising from the activity being exported out of the locality.

Answer 2

C