According to the anthropocentric (or human-oriented) ethic of Baxter and others,
a. environmental preservation is inherently valuable.
b. the Grand Canyon is valuable only because people care about it.
c. we have a strong, almost absolute obligation to preserve species from extinction.
d. future people have no interests that we need to respect now.
e. nature has value in and of itself, apart from human beings
Question 2In consideration for the obligation to others
a. we have no genuine moral obligations to future generations.
b. future people have a right to be born.
c. the U.S. uses more than its proportional share of the world's resources.
d. environmental protection is always a static trade-off, with a fixed economic price to be paid for the gains we
want.
The human skeleton
Macaw or Human
Anterior and posterior human skeleton.
Structure of human OGG1 with either guanine or 8-oxoguanine bound flipped out and bound
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The Human Skeleton