Part I: In a short essay, answer the following questions. No word count is required; the objective is to critically assess the chapter’s outlined worldviews by comparing each to your ideas and beliefs. Provide examples and references to support your answers. Make sure to cite your sources with reliable references.
Chapter 17 of your textbook summarized several different environmental worldviews: human-centered, life-centered, and earth-centered (chapter 17). Which, if any, of these environmental worldviews do you favor? If you disagree with all of them, what is your environmental worldview? Has your environmental worldview changed because you took this course? If so, how? Is your environmental worldview sustainable?
Part II: In a short essay, complete the following prompt and questions. No word count is required. Provide examples and references to support your answers. Make sure to cite your sources with reliable references.
Please explain why you agree or disagree with the following statements: (a) everyone has the right to have as many children as they want; (b) all people have a right to use as many resources as they want; (c) individuals should have the right to do whatever they want with land they own, regardless of whether such actions harm the environment, their neighbors, or the local community; (d) other species exist to be used by humans; (e) all forms of life have a right to exist regardless of their usefulness to humans. Are your answers consistent with the beliefs making up your environmental worldview, which you described in Part I? If not, explain.
