Environmentalists Have Continually Argued for the Use of Alternatives to Fossil

question 96

Multiple Choice

Environmentalists have continually argued for the use of alternatives to fossil fuels to generate energy.Harnessing wind power by setting up wind farms had been one alternative proposed and implemented.As it is now known that these wind farms lead to the slicing and dicing of migratory birds and the decimation of the local bat population,we could say that environmentalists have committed the:

• A)fallacy of composition.
• B)fallacy that association is causation.
• C)fallacy of segmentation.
• D)mistake of ignoring secondary effects.
• E)mistake of ignoring the obvious.

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Definitions:

Activity Cost Pools

Aggregations of all the overhead costs associated with specific activities, used in activity-based costing.

Customer Margin

The profit generated from a particular customer, calculated by subtracting the costs associated with serving that customer from the revenue they generate.

Serving Customers

The activities involved in providing products or services to customers effectively.

Activity Cost Pools

Accumulations of costs grouped by similar or related activities, used in activity-based costing to allocate costs more accurately.