Ap Chapter 2

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Values

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An estimation of the worth of things; a set of ethical beliefs and preferencesthat determine our sense of right and wrong

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Biocentric

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The belief that all creatures have rights and values

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Appropriate technology

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______ can be made at an affordable price by ordinary people using local materials to do useful work in ways that do the least possible harm to both the society and the environment.

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Neo-Ludites

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People who reject technology as the cause of environmental degredation and social disruption

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LuLU's

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Locally unwanted land uses such as toxic dumps or landfills or factories

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Moral Agents

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Being capable of making distinctions between right and wrong and acting accordingly

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NIMBY

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Participatge in LULU demonstrations

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Domination

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Some religions and moral philosophiesregard humans as superior to nature

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Anthropocentric

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The belief that humans hold a special place in nature; being centered primarily on humans and human affairs

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Instrumental Value

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Value or worth of objects that satisfy the needs and wants of moral agents. Objects that can be used as a means to some desirable end

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Scientific Method

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A systematic, precise, objective study of a problem. Gnerally requires observations leading to a hypothesis and then an experiment.

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toxic Colonialism

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Shipping toxic waste to a weaker or poorer country.

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utilitarians

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A philosophy that resources should be used for the greater good, for the greatest number of people, over the longest time.

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Moral Extensionism

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Expansion of our understanding of inherent value or right to persons, organisms, or things that might not be considered worthy of value or rights under some ethical philosophies.

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Universalists

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Those who believe that some fundamental ethical principles are universal and unchanging.

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Ecocentric

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A philosophy that claims moral values and rights for both organisms and ecological systems and processes

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Ecofeminism

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A pluralistic, non-hierarchial, relationship oriented philosophy that suggests how humans could reconceive themselves and their relationship to nature ina non-dominating way

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Holistic Science

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The study of the entire, integrated systems rather than isolated parts

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Nihilists

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Those who believe the world has no meaning or purpose other then a dark, cruel, unceasing struggle for power of existence

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Moral Subjects

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Beings that are not capable of distinguishing between right or wrong or that are not able to act on moral principles and yet are capable of being wronged

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Environmental Ethics

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A search for maoral values and ethical principles in human relations with the natural world.

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Environmental Justice

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A recognition access to a clean, healthy environment is a fundamental human right.

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Environmental Racism

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Decisions that restrict certain people or groups of people to polluted or degraded environments on the basis of race.

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Inherent Value

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Ethical values or rights that exist as an intrinsic or esential characteristic of a particular thing or class of things simply because they exist.

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Interpretative science

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explaination based on observation and description of entire objects or systems ratehr then isolated parts

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Morals

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A set of ehtical principles that guide our actions and relationships

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Relativist

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Those who believe moral principles are always dependent on a particular situation

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science

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systematic, precise objective study of the natural world.

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Stewardship

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A philosophy that holds that humans have a unique responsibility to manage, care for, and improve nature.