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1. Question 2, 4, 5 of chapter 5.

2. Define the main forms of pollution and resource depletion and identify the major problems associated with each form.

The main forms of pollution are air pollution,water pollution,land pollution.

Air Pollution: It is the contamination of air by harmful gases and smoke.

Air pollution causes asthma, allergies and other respiratory sicknesses.

Water Pollution: Water becomes polluted when contaminants or pollutants like industrial waste, insecticides, pesticides, and other chemicals are added to any body of water.

Water pollution severely affects the ecosystem. It can cause endocrine and reproductive problems to animals as well as human beings.

Land pollution: Land pollution refers to the contamination of soil with dangerous materials like heavy metals, pesticides, and landfills. some other causes are illegal house hold dumping, littering, and deforestation.

Land pollution affects human respiratory system. It affects the climate patterns. It can also causes skin problems and other cancers. When the waste is burned, it causes air pollution.

Resource depletion: Resource depletion occurs when resources in a given geographic region are used up.

The basic reasons for the depletion are increase in population, uncontrolled pollution, ever increasing consumption of materials, and deterioration of agricultural land.

The problems with resource depletion are drinking water shortage, famines, higher prices, smaller economies, soil erosion, and global warming etc.

Resource depletion is the consumption of resource faster than it can be replenished

3. Compare and contrast the views of

(a) an ecological ethic,

(b) Blackstone’s ethic of environmental rights, and

(c) a utilitarian ethic of pollution control. Which view seems to you to be the more adequate? Explain your answer.

(a) Environmental ethics is the part of environmental philosophy which considers extending the traditional boundaries of ethics from solely including...