Environmental Science 15th Edition by Scott Spoolman,Tyler Miller

Exercise 4

Explain how exclusion of the harmful environmental and health costs of production from the prices of goods and services is related to the environmental problems we face. What is the connection between government subsidies, resource use, and environmental degradation? What are two ways to include the harmful environmental and health costs of the goods and services in their market prices? Explain how a lack of knowledge about nature and the Importance of natural capital, along with our increasing isolation from nature, can intensify the environmental problems we face. Describe how Juan Martinez is working to reconnect people with nature. What is an environmental worldview ? What is environmental ethics ? Distinguish among the human-centered , life-centered , and earth-centered worldviews. Describe the rise of environmental conservation and protection in the United States.