ENV 2301 Lecture Notes - The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Ancient Society, Ecocentrism
9 Feb 2013
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Think about an aspect of human-nature relation or environmental topic. Live and hunt in packs: basic organizational unit=breeding adult pair + offspring and other adults, breed 1x/year. Fascinating and complex social structure: hierarchy and cooperation. Nomadic, nature-based societies: wolves and humans part of natural systems, wolves admired, respected, revered. Agricultural societies: human settled on land possession control, wolves represented a threat (to farm land and livestock, wolf persecuted in europe, north america (fairy tales) Worldview a basic perspective for our view on the world, shapes our behaviour, beliefs, pg. Egocentric: me and my interests, places the individual at the centre of the universe, everything done to support their interests. Anthropocentric: humans and their needs are the most important. Biocentric: what is important is protecting all life, other species. Ecocentric: broader than just organisms, the whole natural world. 99% of our existence has been spent as hunter gatherers. Biophilia: an innate need for the natural world and the need for it.
