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. What is the main moral point of Leopold's article about the Flambeau River?

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. The current environmental policy is, in Sagoff's words, "pitched entirely at the level of the __________."

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. Not all of us, according to Sagoff, see "ourselves simply as __________."

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. For Leopold, what gave the adventurers thrills?

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. Baxter shows how specific questions regarding policies, such as those of an environmental nature, are one way of uncovering what?

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. Which of the following is NOT one of Baxter's criteria that constitute his position regarding pollution?

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. Friedman believes who is to blame for pollution?

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. Although Bowie agrees that business has an obligation to protect the environment, where is it that Bowie would disagree with many environmentalists?

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. It is a principle of ethics that "ought" implies "can." What does this mean?

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. According to Bowie, environmentalist policies are contrary to a politician's self interest because:

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. Singer's term "speciesism" refers to the belief that:

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. What is Singer's point about pest control?

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. Which of the following is a way in which certain GM crops are superior to their non-GM relatives?

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. Which of the following is a US government agency that has a say about each GM crop that gets developed and sold domestically?

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. Many of the changes to the Flambeau River are due to logging.

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. Luther Standing Bear understood the land as "tame" rather than as a "wilderness."

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. For Sagoff, most important political decisions are and ought to be economic.

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. Kant believed the individual to be a creator of values.

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. The Kantian approach to valuation assumes that some policy recommendations can be justified on objective grounds.

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. Baxter argues that it makes no difference whether we describe a cost in terms of dollars or resources.

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. According to Baxter, our goal is an optimal state of pollution.

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. Bowie says that business has a moral duty to protect the environment, over and above obeying the law.

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. Singer believes that nonhuman animals have interests just as we humans do.

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. Genetic modification of crops is something human beings have only started doing in the last several decades.

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. Experts agree that GM crop technology and production in the U.S. are sufficiently well regulated.

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