Longtermism is the view that we should strive for what is best for long-term environmental stability. 

Phenology is the study of how toxins spread in an ecosystem.

One way to understand ecosystems, claims Leopold, is that they trap nutrients on their “relentless march to the sea.”

Leopold thought that any human interaction with nature diminished its value and “naturalness.”

Taylor described all of the following arguments for human superiority, EXCEPT:

Leopold’s phrase to evaluate the environment was:

To start his paper, Varner discussed a childhood story where he killed something and was sad about it (and he wondered if he should have been sad).  What was it?

For Naess, a deep ecological response to, say, pollution would be:

What is the wavelength used by a radio station that broadcasts with a carrier frequency of 920 kHz?

A person receives an absorbed dose of protons of 20 millirads. The RBE of protons is 5. What is this person’s equivalent dose in rem?