Chapter 7 The Environment

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  is a large source of pollution.

B  helps counteract the “greenhouse effect”.

C  is potentially more dangerous than nuclear power.

D  is not available in sufficient quantities to replenish agricultural land.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  are likely to favor factory farming.

B  are likely to oppose factory farming.

C  oppose animal experimentation in principle.

D  focus on human well-being and ignore animal welfare.

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  prevents the use of government regulation to control the actions of business.

B  implies that non-human animals have no genuine moral rights.

C  is a fundamental human right.

D  would solve the problem of how to conserve resources.

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  have changed the behavior of elk.

B  not change anything.

C  have stabilized their own population.

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  It proceeds on a case-by-case basis, dealing with each company’s specific circumstances.

B  It requires the EPA or some other body to determine the most effective, feasible pollution-control technology for each different industry.

C  It involves the use of pricing mechanisms.

D  It gives companies an incentive to do more than the minimum required by law.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  believes the pleasure we get from eating a hamburger justifies the price the animals pay.

B  rejects eating meat based on moral grounds.

C  does not believe animals suffer.

D  only eats animal that were raised humanely.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  nature has no value apart from human beings.

B  some natural objects are morally considerable in their own right, apart from human interests.

C  all moral rights are derived from the interests of human beings.

D  naturalistic ethics ought to be abandoned.

A  believes that the FTC should be abolished.

B  claims that no one could approve of the treatment of animals in factory farms if they knew what was going on.

C  argues against the use of governmental regulations to control the actions of businesses.

D  denies that non-human animals have any moral rights.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  government subsidies

B  regulations

C  a laissez-faire approach

D  pricing mechanisms

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  does not violate our right to a livable environment.

B  benefits from externalities.

C  is being a free-rider.

D  creates an internality.