Concepts
Question @ Issue
Finish the Sentence
Name That Chapter
Miscellaneous
100
A belief or faith based system
What is Religion?
100
The new strategy to save the world's fauna and flora begins, as in all human affairs, with ethics. (151)
What is the solution to biological impoverishment?
100
"Everyone is also an avowed ________." (152)
What is Environmentalist?
100
The environmental crisis that we're going through.
What is a bottleneck?
100
He wrote the Future of Life.
Who is Edward O. Wilson?
200
"The rich grow richer, and the poor grow poorer" (150)
What is Economic Dispairity?
200
1. Turn away from moral superiority 2. Disarm stereotypes (152)
How do we combine the best of short-term and long-term goals?
200
The two most powerful forces in America, _____ and _____ could be united.... (160)
What is religion and science?
200
humanity has played a role in this.
What is the planetary killer?
200
There are 61 extinct species.
How many extinct species are featured in the illustration in the front of the book?
300
Rasing per-capita production while decreasing energy consumption. (156-157)
What is Sustainability?
300
Diagnose and disconnect exraneous political ideology. (155)
How do we solve the conflict between opposing political ideologies?
300
In the early 1980's WWF was focused on what is known in the trade as the _____. (167)
What is charismatic megafauna?
300
hummanity is in a final struggle with the rest of life.
What is Natures Last Stand?
300
The mythical giant that Wilson compares the human species to.
who is Antaeus?
400
Using the environment for economic growth.
What is the Annuization of Nature?
400
1. Salvage the world's hotspots 2. Keep intact the five remaing fronteir forests 3. cease all logging of old-growth forests everywhere etc..... (160)
How do we protect the remaining ecosystems and species?
400
The _____ ______ has worked to reduce and will eventually eliminate excess chlorofluocarbons. (184)
What is Montreal protocol?
400
The oceanic fish catch is $82 billion world wide.
How Much is the Biosphere Worth?
400
using adequete resources and ethical decisions to perserve the biosphere. (189)
What is the solution?
500
Rising per-capita production and consumption, markets awash in consumer goods and grain, and a surplus of optimistic economists. (149)
What is Capital Growth?
500
Using our resources and ethics to conserve the environment. (189)
How to raise the poor to a decent standard of living worldwide, while perserving as much life as possible?
500
The ______ working within the public trust constraints defined by government policy, is the engine of society. (165)
What is private sector?
500
You yourself are a rain forest of a kind.
What is To the Ends of Earth?
500
Henry David Thoreau was a mentor to Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. because they all use this method of pervoking change. Also he wrote an essay entitled this.
what is civil disobedience?