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Suppose environmentalists want to prevent the disappearance of glaciers in Glacier National Park, which are melting away at an alarming rate. One report claims that slowing global warming can help prevent the melting, which would be accomplished by creating better fuel...
1). Suppose environmentalists want to prevent the disappearance of glaciers in glacier national
park, which are melting away at an alarming rate. one report claims that slowing global
warming can help prevent the melting, which would be accomplished by creating better fuel
efficiency for cars and stronger energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances.
laws passed to implement these higher standards would necessarily reflect a belief that
glaciers have moral status.
Ans: False
2). According to peter singer, the pain suffered by a human is ________ important than that
experienced by a nonhuman animal.
Ans: no more
3). The controversy over the ivory-billed woodpecker has pitted those who want to build a
massive irrigation project against environmentalists who want to stop the project to protect
the woodpecker and other species. a biocentric species egalitarian would probably insist
that the
Ans: project be stopped to protect the ivory-billed woodpecker and all the other species
of plants and animals.
4). The ecological individualist insists that we must take into consideration the interests of
human beings only.
Ans: false
5). The questions of whether an ape has the same moral status as a domestic cow and if
animals (human and nonhuman) deserve the same level of moral concern as plants
concern the issue(s) of
Ans: species egalitarianism or nonegalitarianism.
6). Which philosopher maintains that we must include the interests of all sentient creatures
and give their interests equal weight when calculating which action will produce the
greatest overall satisfaction of interests?
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