Suppose that some environmental regulations (like forbidding the burning of coal in cities) benefit each and every one of us because the air we all breathe is cleaner. If a single company ignores such a regulation and burns coal, while others obey the regulation, then that company

According to William F. Baxter, we ought to respect the "balance of nature" and "preserve the environment" even if doing so brings no benefit to human beings.

Advocates of a "naturalistic ethic" believe that penguins are important only because people like them.

The rising affluence of people in the United States has meant a corresponding decrease in pollution and its attendant environmental problems in the United States.

"Pollution permits" are an example of which of the following methods of achieving our environmental goals?

Thanks to the EPA, the federal government long ago eliminated the problem of potentially harmful pesticides and other chemical residues in food.

The philosopher Tom Regan

According to Holmes Rolston III,

One moral of Garrett Hardin's parable "The Tragedy of the Commons" is that there can be a difference between the private costs and the social costs of a business activity.

A moral vegetarian

According to Joel Feinberg, future generations of people have a right to be born.

Which of the following is true of a regulatory approach to environmental problems?

According to Cambridge University biologist Andrew Balmford, the loss of nature's services is always outweighed by the benefits of development.

A decade after wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone Park their presence was discovered to

The new discipline of “ecological economics” calculates the value of an ecosystem, not in terms of what people are willing to pay for it, but in terms of what it would cost to provide the benefits and services that the ecosystem now furnishes us with.

The word "ecosystem" refers to a total ecological community, both living and non-living.

The moral theorist William T. Blackstone claims that the right to a livable environment

When it comes to protecting animal rights, the United States is far ahead of Europe.

The disparity between private industrial costs and public social costs is what economists call an "externality."

Advocates of a naturalistic ethic contend that some natural objects are morally considerable in their own right, apart from human interests.

Utilitarians

According to the authors of your textbook, any equitable solution to the problem of who should pay the bill for environmental cleanup should take into account responsibility as well as benefit.

Animal manure

One of the attitudes prevalent in business that has led to increased environmental problems is the tendency to view the natural world as a free and unlimited good.

Environmental protection is always a static trade-off, with a fixed economic price to be paid for the gains we want.