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Environment |
The circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or organisms (2) The complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community |
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Environmental science |
The study of our environment and our proper place in it |
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Pragmatic resources conservation |
Teddy Roosevelt Gifford Pinchot |
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Ethical and aesthetic relationship |
John Murray and Aldo Leopold |
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Biocentric preservation |
Outlook that emphasizes the fundamental rights of other organisms to exist |
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utilitarian Conservation |
Forest should be saved to provide people with home and job |
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Silent Spring |
Written by Rachel Carson in 1962 to raise alarm to the public about pollution threats |
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Sustainable development |
Idea that economic Improvement for the world's poorest population is possible without devastating the environment |
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
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Moral extensionism |
And increased consideration of moral values and other living things or even nonliving things |
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Degradation |
The wearing down of rocks |
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Inherent value |
A right to exist |
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Instrumental value |
They have value because they are useful to someone who matters |
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Stewardship |
Idea of taking care of the resources we are given |
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Toxic colonialism |
The practice of targeting poor communities in a developing Nation for Waste Disposal and or experimental with Risk Technology |
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