GEOG 1410 Lecture Notes - Our Common Future, Human Geography, Environmentalism
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Decisions should be made form a holistic perspective with nature at the center. It looks for a technological fix to environmental problems like recycling. Sustainable development that there can still be industrial development and expansion. But it should be done in ways where its in sync. It helps provide a clear image of what"s at stake with environmental destruction. You can only identify earth as a tiny blue dot. When a concept or belief proposes a common condition or unity that applies to everyone. Promotes equal application of values to the entire world: liberalism promises freedom for individuals and promises these fundamental rights to all humans. In it"s purest form, it applies to all genders, sex, and etc: ten commandments. Can look at it as a modern universal life. Take issues from the substance of those values. It becomes hard to argue with something that"s supposed to be good for everyone.