Environmental Responsibility and Sustainability Quiz
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What term is used to describe the strategy where companies engage in symbolic communications with environmental issues without taking substantial action?

  • Eco-marketing
  • Environmental tokenism
  • Sustainability promotion
  • Greenwashing (correct)

In the context of environmental responsibility, what does 'green talk' versus 'green walk' refer to?

  • Discrepancy between environmental policies and actual practices (correct)
  • The communication styles of green activists
  • The effectiveness of eco-marketing strategies
  • The balance between profits and sustainability

Which concept from the text represents the idea of companies being seen as key contributors to environmental problems?

  • Capitalocene (correct)
  • Eco-marketing strategies
  • Sustainability promotion
  • Greenwashing

How does public discourse impact corporations with regard to environmental responsibility?

<p>It puts pressure on them to address environmental issues (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main issue highlighted in the text regarding the disparity between 'green talk' and 'green walk'?

<p>A discrepancy between environmentally friendly claims and actions taken (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary driver of the current ecological crisis?

<p>Capitalogenic factors driven by capital accumulation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the context of the text, how does the modern European ego view non-human natures?

<p>As passive objects for the endless accumulation of capital (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What fictitious dichotomy does the text mention in relation to the capitalocene?

<p>Division between rational humans and animals/nature (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How are animals and nature portrayed in Western capitalist culture according to the text?

<p>As objects for the endless accumulation of capital and human consumption (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What role do Indigenous people play in the capitalocene according to the text?

<p>They are seen as 'nature-folk' to be mastered by Western cultures (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the text describe the relationship between farmed & trapped animals and disposability?

<p>They are viewed as 'ungovernable waste' slipping into disposability (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main driver of epochal planetary transformations in the Anthropocene?

<p>Elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the context of the Anthropocene, what does the narrative of 'human' against 'nature' tend to obscure or confuse?

<p>How colonialism and capitalism structure the environmental crisis (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the text describe the Anthropocene's reliance on blaming an undifferentiated 'humanity' for the environmental crisis?

<p>As a tactic to shift blame from corporations to individuals (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What concept does the text suggest is exemplified by shifting blame for environmental issues from the '1%' to the '99%'?

<p>'Human against nature' narrative (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why do Indigenous folks question whether they are equally to blame for the current environmental crisis?

<p>Due to their sustainable practices that respect nature (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the text suggest that the '1%' is involved in creating environmental problems?

<p>By prioritizing profit over environmental sustainability (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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