Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability

ENVIRONMENTAL WORLDVIEWS, ETHICS, AND SUSTAINABILITY Chapter 28 BIOSPHERE 2 Biosphere 2, was designed to be self sustaining life-supporting system for eight people sealed in the installing in 1991. The experiment failed because of a breakdown in its nutrient pass systems. ENVIRONMENTAL WORLDVIEWS AND VALUES environmental World kens include How you think the world works. What you think your environmental post in the world should be. What you believe is right and amiss(p) environmental behavior. INSTRUMENTAL AND INTRINSIC VALUES Instrumental (utilitarian) A none mark something has because of its usefulness to us or to the biosphere i. e. preserving natural capital and bio regeneration Intrinsic (inherent) The value something has just because it exists regardless of whether it has any instrumental value to us. CLASSIFYING WORLDVIEWS Worldviews are more often than not divided into two groups Holistic (Ecocentric) is commonwealth pertain and focuses on sustaining the orbs 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), responsible school (mix of earlier 2) Instrumental values play a larger role. Biocentric (life-centered) Human as one with the earth Aldo Leopold and John Muir Intrinsic values play a larger role Ecocentric (earth-centered) Humans destroy the earth Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Rachel Carson environmental Worldviews and Values Intrinsic values play a larger role ENVIRONMENTAL WORLDVIEWS Planetary Management Anthropocentric We are the most cardinal We are apart from the rest of nature Because of our technology we will neer run out of resources Economic growth is unlimited and we should use ear ths resources for our benefit Stewardship Biocentric Be stewards to earth Manage earths life support system We most likely will not run out of resources but they should not be wasted Environmental Wisdom Ecosystem-centered (Biocentric) We are dependent on nature Dont waste resources Success depends on how headspring we learn how nature sustains itself Ecofeminist Worldview chief(prenominal) cause of environmental problems not just human-centeredness, but male-centeredness Advocate hunting lodge fixing rift between humans and nature as well as ending oppression base on sex, race, class, and cultural/ phantasmal beliefs Social Ecology Worldview Creating better democratic communities New forms of environmentally persistent production New types of environmentally friendly technology CULTURAL GROUPINGS there are 3 different cultural grouping which determine a persons values and worldviews Moderns (about 45% of the pornographic U. S. population) actively taste mat erialism and the drive to acquire money and property, take cynical view of idealism and caring, accept some form of the planetary management worldview, and hunt down to be pro big businesses Traditionals (about 19% of the adult U. S. population) believe in family, church, and community, support others, having caring relationships, and working to create a better society. They dispose to be older, poorer, and less educated Cultural Creatives of New Progressives (about 36% of the adult U. S. population) have a strong commitment of family, community, the environment, education, equality, personal growth, spiritual trainment, helping other people, living in harmony with the earth, and making a ploughshare to society.SHIFTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES AND WORLDVIEWS Global and national polls break off a shift towards the stewardship and environmental wisdom. LIVING MORE SUSTAINABLY Four directive principles for living more 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 vouch earths bounty and beauty for present and future generations HOW TO lie in MORE SIMPLY Some affluent people in developed countries are adopting a lifestyle of voluntary simmpleness Voluntary simplicity is doing and enjoying more with less by learning to live more patently Based on Mahatma Gandhis principle of enoughness The earth provides enough to requite either persons need but not every persons greedWhen we take more than we need, we are precisely taking from each other, borrowing from the future, or destroying the environment and other species. When you contain voluntary simplicity it means disbursal less time working for money Leading lives less driven to accumulate stuff Spending more time living You prefatoryally must ask yourself How overmuch is enough? Voluntary simplicity shouldnt be confused with constrained sim plicity of the poor, who dont have enough to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, clean water, air, and good health. Law of Progressive Simplification neat growth occurs as civilizations transfer an increasing proportion of energy and wariness 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 make the planet a better place we must agnise that individuals matter. Most of the environmental progress we have made during the last hardly a(prenominal) decades occurred because individuals banded together to insist that we can do better. We must experience earth education. We need hope, a positive vision of the future, and commitment to making the world a better place to live. pic