You are a neurologist who is about to visit a young lady in…

You are a neurologist who is about to visit a young lady in the clinic that you have been following for a few years post stroke. However, to your horror, the medical student that is on his rotation with you picked up the wrong chart as you are entering the room. You cannot leave the room and find the right chart as that would take too much time. However, you notice that your patient only has makeup on one side of her face. Upon physical exam, her upper limbs on the left side are weaker than the right side. What type of stroke do you think she had?

Assigning value to living and non-living parts of our enviro…

Assigning value to living and non-living parts of our environment simply because they are parts of the earth system that sustains us all is to say these parts have .  Alternatively, if we assign values to these parts of our environment based only on what use or worth they might have to human society, then that would mean we have assigned these parts .

The preservationist view is that our environment should be p…

The preservationist view is that our environment should be preserved as intact as possible so as to allow human access to our land and water for enjoyment and recreation, not consumptive processes like logging while the conservationist view is that our environment should be used and managed, sustainably, to provide benefits to society.

What kind of governmental regulation sets limits on what act…

What kind of governmental regulation sets limits on what actions businesses can take (e.g., the amount of pollution they are permitted to contribute to the environment) but allows businesses to buy and sell the ability to take these regulated actions among themselves?  (E.g., a business that doesn’t release as much CO2 to the atmosphere as they’re permitted to one year might sell their ability to put more pollution into the atmosphere to a company who is set to exceed the amount of pollutants they’re permitted to emit.)