Chapter 1 The Foundation of Ethical Thought Multiple Choice Questions Utilitarian Ethics: One Playground at a Time 1. Which country is the focus of “Utilitarian Ethics: One Playground at a Time”? a. India b. Bangladesh c. South Africa d. Nigeria Difficulty: Easy Page 1 2. “Utilitarian Ethics: One Playground at a Time” addresses what problem? a. not enough schools in the country b. not enough children going to school c. lack of clean drinking water in the community d. lack of shelter in the community
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Geo 300 Instructor Peggy Lee‚ Reading Response 1 Question 1: Chapter 1 1) Identify and explain four basic causes of the environmental problems we face. a. “Population growth‚ wasteful and unsustainable resource use‚ poverty and failure to include in their market prices the harmful environmental costs of goods and services.” (p.15) 2) What is exponential growth? b. “Occurs when a quantity such as the human population increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time
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A continent known for its diverse population and natural resources‚ Africa is home to the small West African country Sierra Leone. In the late 1600s‚ Sierra Leone was the first place to ever house‚ sell‚ and trade transatlantic slaves (Edsall‚ Healey‚ and O’Donnell). Nearly a decade later in 1787‚ “British abolitionists and philanthropists establish[ed] a settlement in Freetown‚ for repatriated and rescued slaves”(“Sierra Leone Country Profile”). The British had control of Sierra Leone until April
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APPLIED ETHICS A. What is applied ethics? 1. So far we have been focused either on normative ethics‚ which studies what features make something good/bad‚ an act right/wrong or a trait virtuous or vicious - or metaethics‚ which studies philosophical questions about the meaning of ethical words‚ or the nature of ethical facts 2. Applied ethics is a distinct category of ethical philosophy A. What is applied ethics? 3. Deals with difficult moral questions and controversial moral issues that people actually
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Miller Chapter 1 Reading Questions 1. Three ways that human activities are affecting the environment include our exponential increase in population and our resource consumption‚ which have degraded the air‚ water‚ soil‚ and species in the natural systems that support our lives and economies. A third way is limiting the access that other species have to resources. 2. The goals of environmental science are to learn how nature works‚ how the environment affects us‚ how we affect the environment
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and Hardin (2004) conducted several studies using male wheelchair basketball players. 8In these studies‚ the researchers concluded that the majority of the athletes are desensitized to the way that the media ignores athletes with disabilities. 9According to these studies‚ all the athletes enjoys mainstream media as well as disability media. 10They use the mainstream media to gain socialisation with others‚ learn more about able-bodied sports and to find able-bodied sports role models (Hardin & Hardin
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used in the make up the marketing process (Bayne & Hardin‚ 2002). It is important for an organization to have a good understanding of the marketing mix. Each element is important when developing a marketing plan (Bayne & Hardin). It is equally important to understand that to accurately utilize the marketing process; the organization must follow another process which consists of three phases and are usually formalized in a marketing plan (Bayne & Hardin). The phases are planning‚ implementation and control
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humans do to live sustainably?In Wendell Barry’s Getting along with Nature‚ Berry feels that change begins with the realization of interdependency between nature and humans. In The Tragedy of the Commons‚ by Garret Hardin‚ the population is the greatest evil facing sustainability. Hardin and Berry are the quintessential polar opposites in regards to their own personal perceptions‚ human nature‚ and faith in society but if we could meld these two minds then the idea of sustainability could become a
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example is overfishing in the oceans. Fishermen catch fish highly for their own gain each day unaware that they are possibly causing extinction. Hardin also presents that there is a tragedy of the freedom to breed. He explains that it is intolerable because people will continue to have many children for their own interest‚ causing overpopulation. Hardin begins the article by stating there are problems that exist but lack technical solutions. He goes on to claim that one example is the “population
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Adam Erickson Singer’s Sticky Situation Peter Singer thinks we are too selfish with our money. In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”‚ he proposes a solution to poverty in other countries. Singer believes that money that might otherwise be used for luxury goods should be donated to charities that help save lives in poorer countries. He believes that this decision increase overall happiness more than the purchase of a luxury good‚ like new shoes‚ would. While Singer’s argument raises an
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