Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability

environmental WORLDVIEWS, ETHICS, AND SUSTAINABILITY Chapter 28 BIOSPHERE 2 Biosphere 2, was designed to be self sustaining deportment- go foring system for eight concourse sealed in the facility in 1991. The experiment failed because of a breakdown in its nutrient cycling systems. ENVIRONMENTAL WORLDVIEWS AND value environmental Worldviews include How you think the b any give-up the ghost(predicate) works. What you believe your environmental role in the homo should be. What you believe is right and wrong environmental behavior. INSTRUMENTAL AND INTRINSIC determine Instrumental (utilitarian) A value something has because of its public utility company to us or to the biosphere i. e. preserving natural large(p) and biodiversity Intrinsic (inherent) The value something has just because it exists unheeding of whether it has any instrumental value to us. CLASSIFYING WORLDVIEWS Worldviews argon gener anyy divided into two groups holistic (Ecocentric) is country cente red and focuses on sustaining the earths Natural systems (ecosystems) Life-forms (biodiversity) Life-support systems (biosphere) For all species Atomistic is individual centered anthropocentric (human-centered) Biocentric (life-centered) ANTHROPOCENTRIC, BIOCENTRIC, AND ECOCENTRIC Anthropocentric (human-centered) No-problem school (all problems solved), free-market school (global economy), trustworthy school (mix of previous 2) Instrumental determine play a larger role. Biocentric (life-centered) military personnel as one with the earth Aldo Leopold and only whentocks Muir Intrinsic values play a larger role Ecocentric (earth-centered) Humans destruct the earth Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Rachel Carson Environmental Worldviews and set Intrinsic values play a larger role ENVIRONMENTAL WORLDVIEWS nomadic grapplement Anthropocentric We are the about important We are apart from the stay on of nature Because of our technology we exit neer run out of resources Economic step-up is unlimited and we should use earths resources for our benefit Stewardship Biocentric Be stewards to earth Manage earths life support system We most likely will not run out of resources that they should not be barrend Environmental Wisdom Ecosystem-centered (Biocentric) We are dependent on nature Dont waste resources Success depends on how salubrious we consume how nature sustains itself Ecofeminist Worldview Main cause of environmental problems not just human-centeredness, but male-centeredness urge on society fixing rift mingled with humans and nature as well as ending oppression bandstand on sex, race, class, and cultural/religious beliefs brotherly Ecology Worldview Creating better democratic communities naked forms of environmentally stable production revolutionary types of environmentally friendly technology ethnic GROUPINGS There are 3 diametric cultural grouping which determine a persons values and worldvie ws Moderns (about 45% of the adult U. S. population) actively seek physicalism and the drive to acquire capital and property, scan cynical view of idealism and caring, coincide some form of the planetary wariness worldview, and tend to be pro king-sized businesses Traditionals (about 19% of the adult U. S. population) believe in family, church, and community, helping others, having caring relationships, and working to fix a better society. They tend to be older, poorer, and less educated Cultural Creatives of forward-looking imperfect tenses (about 36% of the adult U. S. population) swallow a strong commitment of family, community, the environment, education, equality, personal growth, spectral disciplinement, helping other throng, living in harmony with the earth, and making a constituent to society.SHIFTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES AND WORLDVIEWS orbiculate and national polls reveal a shift towards the stewardship and environmental wisdom. lively to a greater ext ent SUSTAINABLY Four guiding prescripts for living more than sustainably Respect earth and life and all its diversity Care for life with understanding, love, and compassion Build societies that are free, just, participatory, sustainable, and peaceful fearless earths bounty and beauty for present and future generations HOW TO LIVE more than SIMPLY Some affluent people in developed countries are adopting a lifestyle of voluntary repose unbidden simplicity is doing and enjoying more with less by learning to live more plainly Based on Mahatma Gandhis principle of enoughness The earth provides enough to satisfy every persons need but not every persons greedWhen we take more than we need, we are simply taking from each other, get from the future, or destroying the environment and other species. When you choose voluntary simplicity it means pass less condemnation working for money Leading lives less driven to gain stuff Spending more time living You basically must fill yourself How much is enough? Voluntary simplicity shouldnt be confused with forced simplicity of the poor, who dont have enough to meet their basic unavoidably for food, clothing, shelter, clean water, air, and good health. Law of Progressive Simplification True growth occurs as civilizations transfer an increasing proportion of heftiness and attention from the material side of life to the nonmaterial side and thereby develop their culture, capacity for compassion, sense of community, and strength of democracy. LIVING MORE SUSTAINABLY In order to draw the planet a better direct we must realize that individuals matter. Most of the environmental progress we have made during the last few decades occurred because individuals banded together to swear that we can do better. We must impose earth education. We need hope, a validating vision of the future, and commitment to making the world a better place to live. pic