Momaday Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics

N. Scott Momaday, "Native American Attitudes toward the Environment"
Momaday

1.). How does Mr. Momaday use stories to develop his ideas? Would you draw the same conclusions from his stories that Mr. Momaday does?

Mr. Momaday uses stories to develop his ideas by using imagery imagination constantly. The examples that are provided is through camera or images that are split. Momaday explains both the real world and the imaginary world to view and develop his ideas. I would not draw the same conclusions from his stories in such a way that Mr. Momaday does, because the imagery images don’t always work. Well, at least in my opinion.

2.) What does Mr. Momaday mean by “appropriateness”?

What Mr. Momaday means by appropriateness
What Wilson presents as a universal value is the defense of living nature. The reason why it makes it universal is that without discrimination it could not happen and become some thing.

Peter S. Wentz, "Just Garbage”
Wentz

1.) What are LULUs?

According to Wenz LULUs is an undesirable land that lowers property values. The way the LULU point system works is that it assigns by considering the probable effects of different LULUs one basic system needs.

5.) What is NIMBYism?
NIMBY stands for Not In My Back Yard. It relates to LULU, because they both don’t want these harmful things in their backyard. Also, it’s integral to the cultural value system required by great volume of toxic waste to be genreated.

Ramachandra Guha, "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique”
Guha

1.) Explain the difference between an anthropocentric and a biocentric perspective?

Anthropocentric is the perspective of belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet. They are believed to have a moral status or value higher than of all other living organism. The biocentric perspective gives the same value to all living things making humans no greater or no less valuable than any other living