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In the first part, you will need to give a brief summary of at least 3 of the major environmental paradigmss and make an argument for the one(s) that you consider most convincing. The major paradigms were covered in lecture. They include conquest mentalities, preservation and conservation, modern mainstream environmentalism, environmental justice, and the various meanings of sustainability (such as Brundtland’s sustainable development vision and free-market/corporate environmentalism). Note: it might behoove you to conclude that more than one is very convincing, but instead of defending them separately, use your critical thinking skills to bring them together to form your own environmental ethics. Be sure that if you synthesize two or more paradigms that your new formulation does not have contradictions. For instance, in an extreme case, the conquest paradigm does not square very well with modern environmentalism for reasons that should be

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