Quiz 6 Flashcards
How does Abrahamic religion provide contradictory views on humans and nature?
Some texts can be interpreted that humans should have dominion over the nature world, others say humans should acts as stewards to the environment
How do eastern religions and first nations in north america differ from Abrahamic religions?
More focused on “unity with nature” and respecting the natural world
What is humanism?
Idea that humans are the centre of moral universe
What was significant about the invention of the printing press?
The church no longer had a monopoly on literacy, and lost political power
Why did humanist ethical theories leave out morality for animals?
Animals were seen to have no soul, self-consciousness, or autonomy
What is biocentric ethics?
Seeing human life as part of a broader network of biodiversity. Claims it is a mistake to limit moral considerations of the natural world
What is Transcedentalism?
A movement that believed organized religion and political parties are the reason individuals are corrupted
What is the “land ethic?”
Enlarges boundary of community to include soils, water, plants, and animals. Changes humans from conquerors of land to citizens of land
What were some outcomes of the flooding in the sumas prairie?
670,000 livestock deaths, contamination of water, millions in damages
What is two-eyed seeing?
Using Indigenous and western strengths in combination
What is an alternative to investing in flood management?
Invest in managed retreat to return the lake to the land.
What detail was left out of the cost estimates for flood recovery options?
The cost of damages if another flood occurs
Why might residents in the sumas prairie be in support of their properties being bought out?
Unable to get home insurance, uncertainty when the next evacuation will be
Name 3 reasons why Sumas Lake should be restored?
- More cost-effective than retaining the farmland
- reconciles the changes to the land from colonialism.
- restores habitat for salmon, sturgeon, and migratory birds
What’s an argument that could be made against managed retreat of Sumas Lake?
Loss of current agricultural land
