What environmental worldview listed below holds that the actions we take in managing our environment are good only if they benefit human society?

The preservationist view is that our environment should be preserved as intact as possible so as to allow human access to our land and water for enjoyment and recreation, not consumptive processes like logging while the conservationist view is that our environment should be used and managed, sustainably, to provide benefits to society.

What kind of governmental regulation sets limits on what actions businesses can take (e.g., the amount of pollution they are permitted to contribute to the environment) but allows businesses to buy and sell the ability to take these regulated actions among themselves?  (E.g., a business that doesn’t release as much CO2 to the atmosphere as they’re permitted to one year might sell their ability to put more pollution into the atmosphere to a company who is set to exceed the amount of pollutants they’re permitted to emit.)

Which of the following logical fallacies identifies the logical error made below by the student? Teacher:  “You may not bring plastic, single-use disposable bottles into my classroom because they are bad for the environment.” Student:  “I saw you two weeks ago drinking from one of those bottles so we shouldn’t have to follow that rule.”

What environmental worldview listed below holds that the actions we take in managing our environment are good only if they benefit human society?

What happens to the “field of view” as the magnification of a microscope is switched from low power to high power?

Which of the following logical fallacies identifies the logical error made below by the student? Teacher:  “You may not bring plastic, single-use disposable bottles into my classroom because they are bad for the environment.” Student:  “I saw you two weeks ago drinking from one of those bottles so we shouldn’t have to follow that rule.”

What environmental worldview listed below refers to valuing our environment as an intact whole, including all of the living and nonliving parts of it?

Assigning value to living and non-living parts of our environment simply because they are parts of the earth system that sustains us all is to say these parts have [A].  Alternatively, if we assign values to these parts of our environment based only on what use or worth they might have to human society, then that would mean we have assigned these parts [B].

Which functional group is present in this molecule?