The Controversy Over the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Has Pitted Those Who

question 13

Multiple Choice

The controversy over the ivory-billed woodpecker has pitted those who want to build a massive irrigation project against environmentalists who want to stop the project to protect the woodpecker and other species. A biocentric species egalitarian would probably insist that the

• A) project be completed but with rigid safeguards to protect all sentient beings.
• B) project be completed to maximize the welfare of humans.
• C) project be curtailed (but not stopped) to promote the interests of humans and the ivory-billed woodpecker only.
• D) project be stopped to protect the ivory-billed woodpecker and all the other species of plants and animals.

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