Biology 2483A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Environmental Ethics, Subsistence Economy, Environmental Economics
10 Dec 2016
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Culture and world view influence our perception of the environment. Environmental issues often highlight trade-offs between conflicting economic benefits and social or ethical concerns both disciplines deal with what we value. Our values affect our environmental decisions and actions. Ex. coal mining causes a lot of death because of air pollution so there were movements to stop it, but at the same time people are worried about their salaries so the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)are. Hard to preserve environment because any type often uses input from provincial and city level. Our relationship with the environment depends on assessments of costs and benefits but culture and worldview also affects this relationship. Culture = knowledge, beliefs, values, learned ways of life shared by a group of people. World (cid:448)ie(cid:449) = a perso(cid:374)"s or group"s (cid:271)eliefs a(cid:271)out the (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, purpose, operatio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d essence of the world. Many factors shape our world views and perception of the environment: religion, communities, political ideology, economics, individual interests.
