Environmental Issues
The environment is a big issue today, with groups like Green Peace, The Sierra Club, and others demonstrating against its perceived destruction. Yet there has to be a limit to which we protect the environment. Some of the issues involved are nuclear energy for electricity versus coal, oil, hydro-electric power, tidal power, and solar power. We also have the issue of land use and currently polluted streams, lakes and lands. On the one side of these issues are people who believe nature is sacred and man is the intruder. On the other side you have greedy industrialists who really don't care whether or not their factories are polluting the environment. Sometimes people even get diseases from this pollution. Of course there are many industrialists who are responsible and would not knowingly pollute rivers, the land or the air, in as much as is possible. Most people fall in between the two extremes. How about you?
Please circle the number the best indicates your response:
1 -Yes, definitely 2 -Yes, perhaps 3 -Well, that depends
4 -No, probably not 5 -Never
1. Is the environment more important than human life? 1 2 3 4 5
2. Is the environment more important than good jobs for people? 1 2 3 4 5
3. Is it good for Green Peace to demonstrate against possible polluters? 1 2 3 4 5
4. The company is responsible to clean up the pollution it caused. 1 2 3 4 5
5. Nuclear energy is very dangerous and should not be used. 1 2 3 4 5
6. Nuclear energy is safer and cleaner than coal or oil and should be used. 1 2 3 4 5
7. The government is responsible for cleaning up the rivers, lakes & mountains. 1 2 3 4 5
8. It is wrong to kill animals for sport, even if you intend to eat the meat. 1 2 3 4 5
9. Killing deer, whales, and other mammals is okay unless they are endangered. 1 2 3 4 5
10. There should be no standards for cruelty to animals as they can't think. 1 2 3 4 5
11. It is wrong for foreigners to criticize Koreans for eating dogs. 1 2 3 4 5
12. The ozone layer is thinning and the earth is warming so we must act now. 1 2 3 4 5
13. Nobody really has any proof of global warming so we should be reasonable. 1 2 3 4 5
14. Human population must be controlled or we'll all starve to death one day. 1 2 3 4 5
15. Necessity is the mother of all invention, population is good. 1 2 3 4 5