Due to Concerns About Significant Short- and Long-Term Health Issues

question 12

Multiple Choice

Due to concerns about significant short- and long-term health issues after the 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig owned and operated by BP Oil, a prominent marine toxicologist recommended the evacuation of individual and families that lived proximately along the Gulf of Mexico. What is the term used to describe people who are forced to move following life-threatening natural of human-made environmental devastation?

• A)environmental migrant
• B)ecological victim
• C) environmental refugee
• D) risk society casualty

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Definitions:

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

A U.S. federal agency responsible for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other related activities and organizations.

Systematic Thinking

A methodical approach to problem solving or decision making that is organized and logical.

Moral Consequences

The outcomes of actions that are evaluated based on their rightness or wrongness according to ethical principles.

Bounded Ethicality

The concept that cognitive biases and organizational contexts can limit individuals’ ability to make ethically optimal decisions.