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PLSC 3333 TEST #1(questions wellanswered already passed)
Do we as a human population actually care about the environment for intrinsic reasons? - correct
answer ✔✔Maybe its cause we are self centered and depend on the health of the environment for our
survival thus we truly only care about ourselves --> US gov agrees but for different reasons
Environmental Policy is based on... - correct answer ✔✔The backing of "sound science" --> must be
established prior to implementing policies and prevention measures
Science and Technology - correct answer ✔✔Are interwoven into the fabric -- can we live w/o science
and technology? by choosing to live in an organized society we elect to abide by the laws of our nation.
policy often requires "sound Science"... how much info is enough ... science is objective but if often gets
politicised! (facts twisted)
- Politics is about bargaining, compromise, and the balancing of interest.
- Science tries to deal in truth or absolutes
Views of Environment - correct answer ✔✔Different ideas, values, representations can clash and co-exist
as well which makes decision making and policy implementation more difficult for consensus
C.S. Lewis view of nature - correct answer ✔✔We are always reducing things to nature so that we can
conquer them -- we conquer nature.
Carl Sagan - correct answer ✔✔an Oak and I are made of the same stuff -- began to see nature and its
value as equal to us.
Neil Evernden - correct answer ✔✔[the social creation of nature] -- "Nature is perceived to be in danger,
and it is up to us to devise the means to its salvation."
, current US Gov view of Environment - correct answer ✔✔Public health -- "The purposes of this
subchapter are to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the
public health and welfare...." U.S. Clean Air Act, as amended 1990.
Religion and Literature - correct answer ✔✔Shape society - these laws within our society are molded
and developed from our belief systems - how we treat one another, live, etc... the way we live is shaped
by what we pass into law and our laws are shaped by what we believe and value, ideas that are
propogated via religion and literature.
Early Perception of the Environment - correct answer ✔✔Began to characterize nature as "wild" and
without order - lead us to want to conquer the land, animals, and even the Native American Indians --
C.S. Lewis thinking
Nature was Godless --> bring god to nature by conquering it.
Forests at night = demons evil etc... [native Indians inhibited forests so thought to be savage and
godless].
Dominance 1600-1800 - correct answer ✔✔Nature was viewed as wild
Nature was to be conquered and used
Little value unless could serve humankind
Prevailing attitude from 1600s to 1800s in U.S.
Worcester v Georgia (exploitation) - correct answer ✔✔Gold in Georgia where Indians lived, Georgia
sued Indians for land so Georgia could get gold
-- dominance of nature took hold in the early stages of American development
Land Ordinance of 1785 - correct answer ✔✔Adopted by the United States Congress of the
Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to
farmland in the undeveloped west. ... The 1785 ordinance laid the foundations of land policy until the
passage of the Homestead Act in 1862.
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