Deck 8: The Ideology of Environmental Concern

Question 1

What proportion of those polled in a survey of 43 nations expressed approval for the environmental movement?

A) Less than 10% worldwide
B) Less than 50% worldwide
C) Less than 75% worldwide
D) More than 95% worldwide

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The poetry of the Roman Horace is used by the author to illustrate what point?

A) The moral superiority of environmental attitudes of the early Romans
B) The debate that raged as early as 20 BCE regarding the ethics of human transformation of the environment
C) The environmental destruction of lands conquered during Roman expansion
D) The power of poetry to express appreciation for the environment

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The chief philosophical contribution of the Sophists in environmental discussions was:

A) the contention that money and politics, rather than the Greek gods, moved the world of everyday life.
B) the role of self-interest in all human affairs.
C) moral order is based on nothing more than convention, in other words, morality is a con game.
D) proof that Plato and Aristotle were wrong.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Who made the following statement: "In wildness is the preservation of the world"?

A) Rachel Carson
B) Lao Tzu
C) Aristotle
D) Henry David Thoreau

Question 5

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A) Business leaders are the most likely opponents of the environmental movement.
B) Whites often show lower levels of concern for the environment than minority groups.
C) Both a and b are true.
D) Neither a nor b is true.

Question 6

According to Ronald Inglehart, the generations raised since the 1970s have experienced a "postmaterialist socialization." Those respondents with a "postmaterialist socialization" who responded to a survey were most likely to say the country's top goals should be:

A) maintaining order.
B) reducing democratic participation.
C) fighting rising prices.
D) protecting freedom of speech.

Question 7

"Humans are exceptional creatures who face few ultimate environmental limits, and the basic goal of human society is technological mastery over nature for the purpose of wealth creation." This statement best describes which paradigm?

A) The new paradigm
B) The alternative paradigm
C) The technological-social paradigm
D) The ecological-social paradigm

Question 8

"Humans are part of nature and need to maintain a sense of balance and limits in an interconnected world." This statement best describes which paradigm?

A) The dominant paradigm
B) The old paradigm
C) The human-exceptionalism paradigm
D) The ecological-social paradigm

Question 9

To what does Ramachandra Guha attribute the robust environmental movement in India?

A) The high population from which activists can be drawn
B) Indian democracy
C) The Chipko movement
D) The environmental sensitivity of Ghandi

Question 10

Societies from the ancient Greeks, ancient Romans, and ancient Chinese through to the present day have found nature to be morally attractive. Why?

A) The natural conscience is a realm distinct from the polluting influences of social interests and social power.
B) The beauty of wild nature is inherently preferable to the polluting effects of city life.
C) The goodness in nature serves as a correcting force on corrupt desires political power.
D) Nature is without currency and thus foils the greed of monetary gain.

Question 11

What percent of Americans in a 2007 poll agreed that the United States "is in as much danger from environmental hazards such as air pollution and global warming as it is from terrorists"?

A) 17%
B) 45%
C) 63%
D) 98%

Question 12

The "white male effect" suggests that white men have?

A) As much care the environment as non-white men, but less than women in general
B) More anxiety about technological risks than white women
C) Considerably less concern with health risks and environmental protection
D) A greater concern for environmental issues than other groups

Question 13

What is the "natural me"?

A) The legitimizing innocent self that the natural other sees
B) The inauthentic self-perception of white males
C) Humans' inherent concern for environmental health
D) The tendency to see oneself as a non-harmful part of the planet

Question 14

The environmentalism of the poor focuses attention primarily on:

A) economic survival.
B) the unequal distribution of environmental "bads."
C) combining environmental concerns with economic concerns.
D) all of the above.

Question 15

What perspective did the Daoist philosophers hold in common with the Greeks?

A) They understood nature as purely Good.
B) They viewed the country as morally superior to the city.
C) They held similar philosophies on not acting deliberately.
D) They were critical of self-centered money interests.

Question 16

The partisan divide over environmental issues has ____ between Democrats and Republicans in the last 30 years?

A) increased
B) stabilized
C) fluctuated every election cycle
D) decreased

Question 17

Why has environmentalism become such a widespread concern worldwide?

A) Democratic sensibilities and institutions
B) Moral attractiveness of nature
C) Spread of knowledge of material threats to the environment
D) All of the above

Question 18

Individuals in low and middle-income groups are more likely to support environmental causes than people who:

A) earn high incomes.
B) are subsistence farmers.
C) white males.
D) individuals who earn below the poverty line.

Question 19

What does Inglehart mean by post-materialist?

A) Post-materialists are concerned about economic and physical security.
B) Post-materialists emphasize freedom, self-expression, and quality of life.
C) Post-materialists are very poor, and thus, without material possessions.
D) All of the above.

Question 20

Paradigm shift theorists distinguish between environmental beliefs and environmental values. What is the difference between these two?

A) The former reflects the way it is, while the latter reflects the way it ought to be.
B) The former is reflected in real policy changes, while the latter is proponed by environmental lobbyists
C) The former is shaped by religion, while the latter is informed by the "natural me."
D) The former reflects the way it ought to be, while the latter reflects the way it is.

Question 21

Over the past 30 years, public concern for the environment has declined sharply.

Question 22

Washington State University researchers found a nearly perfect correspondence between people's environmental beliefs and environmental values.

Question 23

Poor people tend to have little concern for the environment, as they must be concerned first with economic survival.

Question 24

The United States has the highest rate of environmental concern of all industrialized countries.

Question 25

Inglehart suggests that postmaterialist countries are moreenvironmentally aware than materialist countries.

Question 26

Ecological modernization describes the process through which manufacturing facilities update their equipment to be less polluting.

Question 27

To what does the title of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring refer?

Question 28

What is the 'issue-attention cycle'? How does it apply to concerns about environmental issues?

Question 29

Detractors have claimed the environmental movement is a "liberal, white, affluent" concern. Do you agree? What evidence would you provide to support your arguments?

Question 30

The author gives two arguments that bring the postmaterialist thesis into question. Describe one?

Question 31

Discuss how globalization can be both good and bad for the environment?

Question 32

Explain the critique that environmentalism is a "passing flavor-of-the-month kind of issue." Do you agree or disagree? What evidence would you provide to support your argument?

Question 33

Explain the critique that environmentalism is mainly an "elite issue." Do you agree or disagree? What evidence would you provide to support your argument?

Question 34

Explain what each of the following is and how each contributes to the "dialogue of environmental concern": 1. the natural conscience; 2. material environmental threats; and 3. democracy?

Question 35

What are the human exceptionalist paradigm (HEP) and the new environmental paradigm (NEP)?

Question 36

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Silent Spring

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 37

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Two Treatises of Government

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 38

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Discourse on the Origins of Inequality

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 39

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ search for a realm of innocence in

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 40

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Demiurge

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 41

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ the Good

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 42

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Eastern asceticism

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 43

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ natural conscience

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 44

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ essence - individual essential quality

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 45

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ the way / "natural"

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 46

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ acting without deliberate effort

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 47

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ the West and Wildness

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 48

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ inspiration of the wilderness preservation movement

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 49

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ inspiration of the voluntary simplicity movement

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 50

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Henry David Thoreau

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 51

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ material basis to the ideology of environmental concerns.

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 52

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ issue-attention cycle

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 53

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ issue-attention cycle

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 54

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ "environmentalism of the poor"

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 55

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ postmaterialist values

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 56

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ technological-social paradigm

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 57

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ ecological-social paradigm

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn

Question 58

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ Paradigm shift

A) Rachel Carson
B) John Locke
C) Jean Jacques Rousseau
D) Natural conscience
E) The Good
F) Plato
G) Lao Tzu / Dao
H) Dao
I) De
J) Dao
K) Wu-wei
L) Henry David Thoreau
M) Henry David Thoreau
N) Henry David Thoreau
O) Natural conscience
P) "Perceived" environmental decline
Q) Anthony Down
R) Compassion fatigue
S) Ramachandra Guha
T) Ronald Inglehart
U) Old paradigm
V) New paradigm
W) Thomas Kuhn