Spring, 2009

Reading guide for William F. Baxter’s “People or Penguins”

Word process your responses.

1. Construct the reference entry for this essay in correct APA format.

2. What step must be taken before we can agree on any given environmental issue? (p. 370)

3. What is the problem inherent in each new environmental goal? (p. 370)

4. What are the four criteria that Baxter proposes to test solutions to environmental problems?

(pp. 370-1)

5. Define anthropocentrism. (p. 364)

6. How is Baxter’s an anthropocentric position? (pp. 371-2)

7. What does Baxter mean when he claims that for every goal, there are costs? (pp.372-3)