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| environmental science | an interdisciplinary area of study that includes both applied and theoretical aspects of human impact of the world |
| Environment | everything that affects an organism during its lifetime |
| ecosystem | a region in which the organisms and physical environment are in an interacting unit. |
| Wilderness North | -mining, oil, forests. |
| Wilderness North Problems | cold, forest fires, deforestation, exploitation |
| Agricultural Middle | grow crops, rich soil |
| Agricultural Middle Problems | losing topsoil, desertification, drought, chemicals and pesticides, flooding |
| Dry west | grazing land |
| Dry west Problems | build up of salts in soils from watering |
| forested west | some grazing and lots of timber |
| forested west Problems | too many trees are cut down |
| Great lakes and industrial north east | mostly for water transport/shipping, recreation, drinking |
| Great Lakes and industrial north east problems | toxins spilled in water, toxins bioccumulate into food chains |
| south | fast growing cities, industry, wetlands |
| south problems | groundwater pollution, transportation problems, poverty, subject to flooding/ bad weather |
| Anthropocentric | human centered: only humans are morally significant, duty to the environment is derived from human interest |
| Biocentric | life centered: all froms of life have the right to exist, some give heirarchy to values of each creature |
| ecocentrism | environment deserves direct moral consideration- it has rights, the environment is on a moral par w/humans |
| development ethic | assumes that humans should be masters of nature and earths' resources are only here for human benefit. (industrialism or egocentrism); reinforces the work ethic-creating begger and better things |
| preservation ethic | nature itself has an intrinsic value apart form human appropriation. religious, recreational, and scientific respect |
| religious respec toward nature | creatures have a right to live (preservation ethic) |
| recreational respect | beauty of nature ect.. (parks) (preservation ethic) |
| scintific respect | we can learn a lot from nature (preservation ethic) |
| conservation ethic | balance between total developement and absolut preservation, decent living standards, but a balance of resourc use and availability. (1 people living in 1 world indefinetely!) |
| economic growth and resource exploitation | we continue to consume natural resources as if supplies were never ending |
| corporation | leading entitles designed to operate at a profit. people are faced w/ethical decisions based on environment |
| profitability | corporation must make profit- helping environment takes away some profit |
| Industrial ecology | links economy and environment; we can do this w/o hurting environment |
| evnironmental justice | fairness- laws deigned to protect ALL people. different nations suffer from the effects of pollution |
| individual environmental ethics | we are individually responsible. our ethics should affect our daily lives; many want to change.. but they dont want to work for change |
| Global environmental ethics | worse by widened gap b/w the rich and poor; nations must set aside political differences to work towards global environment. |
| earth day | began in 1970; every 1 day of the year it is celebrated |
| Boundary Water Treaty | 1909- b/w canada and US- not to pollute waters across borders |
| Kyoto Protocol | 125 countries met in Japan adn agreed to reuce 6 green house gases by 5% below 1990 levels b/w 2008 and 2012 |
| What is meant by an ecosystem approach to environmental problem solving? | Whenever we make decisions we need to keep the environment in mind |
| How do environmental laws affect profit of a business? | they take away profit b/c taking care of the environment costs money |
