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Lecture 12: Religion, Environment and Historical Roots of Ecological Crisis
Lecture 12: Religion, Environment and Historical Roots of Ecological Crisis
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It will threaten objectivity, scientific investigation, professionalism, or democratic values
Who wrote the essay ‘The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis’?
o Lynn White
o Rachel Carson
o Christophe Munier
o None of these
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Lynn White
Which of the following is considered as an essential source for the havoc wreaked
by Western societies upon the earth?
Biblical writings about “man’s right to master the women”
Biblical writings about “man’s right to master the cosmos”
Biblical writings about “man’s right to master the earth”
None of these
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Biblical writings about “man’s right to master the earth”
Our ecologic crisis is the product of an emerging, entirely novel, ________________.
Aristocratic culture
Democratic culture
Bureaucracy culture
Plutocracy culture
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Democratic culture
Which of the following victory is considered as the greatest psychic revolution
in the history of our culture?
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The victory of Christianity over Paganism
Our science and technology have grown out of ______________ toward man’s relation to nature.
o Islamic attitude
o Buddhist attitude
o Jewish attitude
o Christian attitude
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Christian attitude
Lynn White provided an unmistakable link between the rise of science through
____________ traditions in the middle ages
o Judeo-Christian
o Christian
o Judaism
o None of these
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Judeo-Christian