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Exercise five: should the bison be saved?
- If you were there, would you join Nielson in attempting to save the bear?
- Choose an ethical approach from above that best supports the Park Service's position of nonintervention and construct an ethical argument in its support.
- Choose an ethical approach from above that best supports the position of intervention and construct an ethical argument in its support.
- Is Harvey right when he claims that the Park Service assumes this a scientific issue when in fact it is a moral/religious issue? Is nonintervention clearly the position that must be derived from the ecological standpoint?
Exercise six: stop having babies
- The platform of Deep Ecology uses the position that nature is intrinsically valuable to assert that human population must be drastically curtained.
- Examine the claim that nature is intrinsically valuable, that is, it has value on its own independently of its usefulness as a resource to serve human needs.
- Examine the additional premise that human activity is "excessive and the situation is rapidly worsening."
- Do you think that human population should be seriously curtailed to mitigate or eliminate the harmful impact of human activity on the environment?
- Norton would hold that the Deep Ecology platform is decidedly nonanthropocentric. Do you agree? Can, as Norton claims, a sustainable environmental policy be carried out on anthropocentric grounds?
What did you learn?
Take time to do a Muddy Point exercise on this module. What did you learn? (Something positive.) What was the muddiest point? (Something you didn't understand or disagreed with.)
Presentation on module
Presentation on environmental ethics with exercises
Presentation at schoenstatt january 22, 2010
Presentation taped october 30, 2011 at schoenstatt
Appendix
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lack electricity and its more savely than electronic microscope because its naturally by using of light
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