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future617RT · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

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 2

In 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.