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


b

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What will be an ideal response?

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a. Jesus' death b. Jesus' life c. the end of Christianity d. the spread of Christianity

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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