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- ascribes intrinsic value to both human and nonhuman life (all living things have intristic value); opposition in clearing a forest, even if it would increase food production for people (all animals) (ex. House built around a tree)
- evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture
- formal set of plans and principles intended to solve problems and aid decision making
- gave the government the right to manage lands it expropriated from Native Americans (first wave of environmental policy)
- judges actions based on their effects on ecological systems, including nonliving elements; The belief is that preserving systems also preserves their components, including life, water quality, etc; nature has intrinsic value (all nature)
- Commercial agriculture reduces need of wildlife, but increases need for timber, land, and water.
- Physical/Environmental factors that impact where crops are grown
- in mid-2008, the fish and wildlife service released a new management plan that would do what?
- less than what percent of old growth forests remain?
- automation in the timber industry eliminated an estimated how many jobs?
- under the northwest forest plan and other acts, what percentage of federal timberlands were reserved to safegaurd watersheds and protect the nothern spotted owl and several hundred other species?
- the timber industry in the pacific northwest was not operating how?
- from 1977 to 1987, logging in oregon's national forests increased by over what percentage?
- under what law was logging suspended in about 1.2 million hectares of forest where the northern spotted owl lives?
- why did the timber industry oppose the suspension of logging?
- what provided federal aid to retrain some timber workers for other careers?
- What is the cost to society of having less pollution, which is offset by benefits to society of activity creating pollution?
- In flint, Michigan who noticed that kids were getting skin rashes and so she performed lead tea sting on the children's blood?
- What believes that goods and services have value that can be converted to currency?
- In the early 2000s, there was a superfund site where a town switched their water supply and didn't properly treat the water so lead seeped into the water through the pipes. What site is this?