Chapter 25: Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability

We are all part of the community of life and the ecological processes that sustain all life.

Learn to live with less.

We can and should manage the earth for our own benefit.

How people think the world works and what they think their role should be

Beliefs about what behavior is right and what behavior is wrong with regard to the environment

We can and should manage the earth for our own benefit

We have an ethical responsibility to be caring stewards

We are all part of the community of life and the ecological processes that sustain all life

irreversible and should never be crossed

food webs, nutrient cycling, biodiversity, ecological succession

human made or centered

Life-centered. Compare anthropocentric.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need but not every person's greed.

We can solve any environmental, population, or resource problem with more economic growth and development, better management and better technology.

The best way to manage the planet is through minimal government interference and regulation. Everything should be privatized and through competition the free market chooses what to do with it.

feeling that an area has a distinct and meaningful character

a way of life that rejects the high-consumption, materialistic lifestyles of consumer cultures and affirms - minimalism