The Green Revolution is seen as a success from all three perspectives in this chapter.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Those with a high-technology perspective believe which of the following?
a. Human creativity can solve any problem.
b. Humans, as part of the environment, can progress without changing other parts.
c. Progress is an ecological problem.
d. The environment puts us in harmony with the universe.
e. All of the above are correct.
In 1918, the influenza disaster missed America Samoa: match the reason for this and the perspective that would support such action. They
a. received World Health Organization help: shared technology.
b. had developed a natural immunity to the disease: appropriate technology.
c. closed their borders to shipping: appropriate technology.
d. had government funding to purchase needed drugs: high technology.
e. experienced a high death rate from malaria: shared technology.
Those with an appropriate-technology perspective reject the use of vaccines because
a. most cultures reject them.
b. of their expense.
c. they are difficult to produce and thus are only available only in developed countries.
d. by definition they are high technology.
e. they do not reject the use of vaccines.
Businesses that contract with indigenous peoples to use their inventions in products recognize the value of
a. sustainable development.
b. Our Common Future.
c. all NGOs.
d. intellectual-property rights.
e. the UN Charter.
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