Prepare: Read Chapters 1 and 2 in Environmental Policies and all required resources as listed in the Student Course Guide.

Reflect: The natural world provides us with an abundance of resources. Our food, drinking water, clean air, and all of the products we consume and use each day primarily come from resources supplied by nature. All of our natural resources have value but the values we place on these resources differ in both how we quantify and qualify these resources.

Write: You will be assigned to research a specific natural resource based on the first letter of your last name. 

• If your last name begins with A to G, you must research Earth’s climate.

In your initial post of at least 250 words, using the required resources and any additional credible resources that would enhance the strength of your argument, complete the following:

• Discuss the various direct and indirect environmental values (as seen in Chapter 1 of Environmental Policies) associated with the natural resource you were assigned.
• Describe one policy tension between your assigned natural resource and a threat to that resource.
• Evaluate the different worldviews (e.g., biocentricism, anthropocentrism) that influence the policy tension you just described and explain which worldview is most apparent in the policy tensions and why.