A consulting firm that provides environmental impact reports is ...

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A consulting firm that provides environmental impact reports is asked to assess the impact of a proposed project for a large-scale open pit coal mining operation
 
  Using the Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric, the agency receiving that report evaluates the critical thinking used by the consulting firm as unacceptable. Describe that category and list the weaknesses that the report probably contained for it to be evaluated as unacceptable.
 
  What will be an ideal response

Question 2

Why are strong critical thinking skills needed to resolve conflict among human beings?
 
  What will be an ideal response

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Answer to Question 1

For the report to be evaluated as unacceptable it must have included most or many of the following mistakes:
  Misinterpretation of evidence, statements, graphics, questions, and so on.
  Failure to identify strong, relevant counterarguments.
  Omitted or superficial evaluations of obvious alternative points of view.
  Presentation of unwarranted or fallacious conclusions.
  Failure to justify all but a few results or procedures, and infrequent explain of reasons.
  Maintenance or defense of views based on self-interest or preconceptions, regardless of the evidence or reasons

Answer to Question 2

In the potential divergence of various beliefs and values, our reliance on ideological, comparative, empirical ways of reasoning often creates as many conflicts within our own minds as between ourselves and other people. Given how we human beings think, it is clear that strong critical thinking skills and habits of mind are needed if we are to negotiate livable paths not just to our own individual well-being but to the truth about how our universe works, to mutual respect, and to harmony in the world community.