BUS 309 Business Ethics Week 7 Quiz

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1. Which of the following is true concerning our environment today?

a. the Clean Air Act of 1970 has had no

beneficial effects

b. animal waste from factory farms is goodfor the environment

c. the "greenhouse effect" is basically media

hye

d. olluted air is a health ris!

. An ecosystem

a. should never betamered with. c. can be uset byhuman behavior.

b. can survive any

human intervention.

d. is indeendent of all

other ecosystems.

#. $he "tragedy of the commons" is

a. the lac! of a commons%a common lace

where eole can come together.

b. the failure to areciate what we have in

common with other secies.

c. that cost&benefit analysis involves value

'udgments that we do not share in

common.

d. that individual ursuit of self&interest can

sometimes ma!e everyone worse off.

(. )ome environmental regulations *li!e forbidding the burning of coal in cities+ benefit
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each and every one of us because the air we all breather is cleaner. ,f an individual

ignores the regulation and burns coal- while others obey the regulation- then he or she

a. violates our right to

a livable

environment.

c. dislays an

ignorance of

ecology.

b. is being a free rider. d. creates an

eternality.

/. $he moral theorist William $. lac!stone claims that the right to a livable

environment

a. would solve the roblem of how to

conserve resources.

b. revents the use of government regulationto control the actions of business.

c. is a fundamental human right.

d. imlies that non&human animals have no

genuine moral rights.

. Cost&benefit analysis

a. is influenced byvalue 'udgments. c. values costs overbenefits.

b. considers only

short&term effects.

d. is a value&free

social&scientific

aroach.

7. Which environmental statement is true?

a. $roical forests are the earth2s richest-

oldest- and most comle ecosystems.b. ecause of technological brea!throughs-

eole living in develoed countries ut

less strain on the environment than do

eole in oorer countries.

c. $here are only about 1000 secies of

animals left in the world.

d. $he 3nited )tates consumes only its

roortional share of the world4s

irrelaceable natural resources.


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5. Concerning future generations-

a. all hilosohers today re'ect the idea that

future eole have rights

b. utilitarianism dictates a radical reductionin oulation growth

c. future eole have a right to be born

d. the social and environmental olicies we

adot can affect who is born in the future

9. According to the anthroocentric *or human&oriented+ ethic of ater and others-

a. environmental reservation is inherently

valuable.

b. the 6rand Canyon is valuable only

because eole care about it.

c. we have a strong- almost absolute

obligation to reserve secies from

etinction.

d. future eole have no interests that we

need to resect now.

e. nature has value in and of itself- aart

from human beings.

10. Which of the following is true of factory farms?

a. $hey are smaller these days than they used

to be.

b. $he eole who run them are brutal.

c. Contrary to the critics- the animals in them

rarely suffer.

d. $hey ermit the mass roduction of meat

at low rices.

11. According to )haw and arry- utilitarians

a. focus on human well&being and ignore

animal welfare.

b. oose animal eerimentation inrincile.


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c. should include nonhuman animal

leasures and ains in the overall

utilitarian calculus.

d. are li!ely to favor factory farming.

1. Which of the following is true of a regulatory approachto environmental roblems?

a. ,t roceeds on a case&by&case basis-

dealing with each comany4s secific

circumstances.

b. ,t gives comanies an incentive to do

more than the minimum reuired by law.

c. ,t reuires the 8A or other body to

determine the most effective- feasible

ollution&control technology for each

different industry.

d. ,t involves the use of ricing mechanisms.

1#. Animal manure

a. is not available in sufficient uantities to

relenish agricultural land.b. is a large source of ollution.

c. hels counteract the "greenhouse effect".

d. is otentially more dangerous than nuclear

ower.

1(. "ollution ermits" are an eamle of which of the following methods of achieving

our environmental goals?

a. ricing mechanisms c. a laisse:&faire

aroach

b. government

subsidies

d. regulations

1/. ,n consideration for the obligation to others-

a. we have no genuine moral obligations to

future generations.b. future eole have a right to be born.


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c. the 3.). uses more than its roortional

share of the world4s resources.

d. environmental rotection is always a static

trade&off- with a fied economic rice to

be aid for the gains we want.

1. ;ne truth about factory farms is

a. they rarely inflict any genuine suffering

on animals.

b. most animals we eat are from them.

c. they are necessary to feed the world.

d. they are run by brutal eole.

17. According to the hilosoher


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animals in factory farms if he or she !new

what was going on.

b. argues against the use of governmental

regulations to control the actions of

businesses.c. believes that the =$C should be abolished.

d. denies that non&human animals have any

moral rights.

0. According to olmes >olston ,,,-

a. naturalistic ethics ought to be abandoned.

b. some natural ob'ects are morallyconsiderable in their own right- aart from

human interests.

c. all moral rights are derived from the

interests of human beings.

d. nature has no value aart from human

beings.

1. A decade after wolves were reintroduced to @ellowstone ar!- their resence wasdiscovered to

a. not change

anything.

c. have changed the

behavior of el!.

b. have stabili:ed their

own oulation.

d. be disrutive.

. usiness has considered the environment to be

a. a scarce

commodity.

c. a limited suly.

b. free and nearly

limitless.

d. costly.

#. An assessment of costs and benefits inevitably involves

a. facts. c. false oinions.

b. monetary costsonly.

d. value 'udgmentsand factual


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uncertainties

(. Which of the following is a drawbac! to the regulatory aroach?

a. regulation can ta!e away an industry2s

incentive to do more than the minimum

b. regulation is an incentive to an industry to

do more than the minimum

c. regulation does not aly to all eually

d. does not reuire olluters to use the

strongest most feasible means of ollution

control.

/. A moral vegetarian

a. re'ects eating meat based on moral

grounds.

b. only eats animal that were raised

humanely.

c. does not believe animals suffer.

d. the leasure we get from eating a

hamburger 'ustifies the rice the animals

ay.

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1. $he new disciline of ecological economicsB calculates the value of an ecosystem-

not in terms of what eole are willing to ay for it- but in terms of what it would cost

to rovide the benefits and services that the ecosystem now furnishes us.

. >egulation is always the most effective way to allocate the costs of environmental

rotection.

#. Advocates of a "naturalistic ethic" believe that enguins are imortant only because

eole li!e them.

(. Cost&benefit analyses of rival environmental olicies inevitably involve ma!ing value

'udgments about nonmonetary costs and benefits.


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/. $he word "ecology" refers to the science of the interrelationshis among organisms

and their environment.

. $he word "ecosystem" refers to a total ecological community- both living and non&living.

7. $he disarity between rivate industrial costs and ublic social costs is what

economists call an "internality."

5. Cost&benefit analysis is a device used to determine whether it4s worthwhile to incur a

articular cost.

9. $amering with the ecosystem always has in'urious effects.

10. When it comes to the rotecting animal interests- the 3nited )tates is far ahead of

8uroe.

11. According to


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of environmental rotections and restorations.

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1. ,s it aroriate to have a valley of deathB as described in Case 7.? ,f you wor!ed

for one of the factories how would you 'ustify the fumes? ,f you ta!e an

environmental view- how would confront the roblem?

. ,s it a moral right or rivilege for human beings to live in a clean environment?

Eefend your answer.

#. Eoes that fact that cEonald2s gave in to ublic oinion mean that all businesses

should do the same? ,s there ever a time that a business can tell environmentalists

that they will not abide by the regulations or reuests? Eefend your answers.

(. Are there any differences between environment ethics for humans and animals?

Eefend your answers.

/. Would you roose an incentive based rogram to challenge comanies to reduce

their environmental liability? 6ive an eamle of how this can be done and whether

it could ever be effective. Eefend your answer.

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