Nature Writer Barry Lopez Spent Time with the Inuit of the Arctic

question 90

Multiple Choice

Nature writer Barry Lopez spent time with the Inuit of the Arctic and concluded that hunting societies had different attitudes about the land than industrial ones because "the focus of a hunter in a hunting society was not killing animals but attending to the myriad relationships he understood bound him into the world he occupied with them." What kind of attitude do hunting societies have?

• A) Judeo-Christian
• B) the new ecological paradigm
• C) human exceptionalism
• D) anthropocentric

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Definitions:

Shutdown Point

The level of production and price point at which a company's revenue from goods sold is equal to the variable cost of production, making operations financially unsustainable in the short term.

Shutdown Point

The level of output and price at which a firm's total revenue is equal to its total variable costs, below which the firm will decide to cease production in the short run.

Break-even Point

The point at which total costs and total revenue are equal, meaning there is no net loss or gain.

Long-run Supply Curve

A graphical representation showing the relationship between the price level and the quantity of output that producers are willing to supply, taking into account all factors of production can be varied.