1.

The new discipline of "ecological economics" calculates the value of an ecosystem, not in terms
of what people are willing to pay for it, but in terms of what it would cost to provide the
benefits and services that the ecosystem now furnishes us. TRUE
2. Regulation is always the most effective way to allocate the costs of environmental protection.
FALSE
3. Advocates of a “naturalistic ethic” believe that penguins are important only because people like
them. FALSE
4. Cost-benefit analyses of rival environmental policies inevitably involve making value judgments
about nonmonetary costs and benefits. TRUE
5. The word "ecology" refers to the science of the interrelationships among organisms and their
environment. TRUE
6. Increased productivity by changing the color of the surrounding working environment is known
as the "Hawthorne effect." FALSE
7. Notification of employee monitoring constitutes consent on the part of the employee to be
monitored. FALSE
8. Privacy is widely acknowledged today to be fundamental right. TRUE
9. the general proposition that a firm has a legitimate interest only in employee behavior that
significantly influences work performance applies equally to off-the-job conduct. TRUE
10. Business often claim polygraphs are a fast and economical way to verify the information
provided by a job applicant. TRUE
11. In most business, the manufacturing department is the only source of environmental pollution.
FALSE
12. Externalities are side effects or by-products of actions that are not intended, but unavoidably
impact others. TRUE
13. The hole in the ozone layer was caused primarily by CFCs. TRUE
14. The ozone layer is in depletion. TRUE
15. The main reason for global warming is overpopulation. FALSE
16. As a general rule, the burden is on an organization to establish the legitimacy of infringing on
what would normally be considered the personal sphere of the individual. TRUE
17. There is a general consensus among philosophers and lawyers about how to define the right to
privacy. FALSE
18. Informed consent implies deliberation and free choice. TRUE
19. The Employee Polygraph Protection Act permits most private employers to use lie detectors in
"pre-employment testing.". FALSE
20. One problem that OSHA will have to address in the future is the increasing number of
musculoskeletaldisorders. TRUE
21. The amount of solid waste disposed each year is reduced by the amount of waste materials
recycled. TRUE
22. Manufacturing firms have been major sources of water pollution. TRUE
23. A global water crisis has developed as a result of drought, pollution, mismanagement and
politics. TRUE
24. Because of widespread concern over water pollution, toxic chemicals are no longer dumped into
U.S. lakes and nvers. FALSE
25. Deforestation occurs only in less developed countries (LDCs). FALSE
26. The word "ecosystem" refers to a total ecological community, both living and non-living. TRUE
27. The disparity between private industrial cost and public social cost is what economist call an
"internalities" FALSE
28. Cost-benefit analysis is a device used to determine whether it's worthwile to incur a particular
cost. TRUE
29. Tampering with the ecosystem always has injurious effect. FALSE
30. When it comes to the protecting animal interests, the United States is far ahead Europe. FALSE