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Alternative environmental paradigm- comprises a set of beliefs that challenge the centrality of economic growth, technological progress, and the human domination of nature as pillars of society. This paradigm stresses the need to adopt small-scale, decentralized economic and political structures that are in harmony with nature. It is an ideology that assumes that humans are separate from and superior to all other natural things and that judges human actions in the national environment. Biocentric egalitarianism is the principle, held by deep ecologists that all things on earth have an equal right to exist. In this view, humans have no special rights or privileges that allow them to subdue and destroy their national surroundings. Broadening-base hypothesis- holds that environmental concern will eventually spread beyond its present social base-that is, of young, well-educated, urban, politically liberal citizens-to all of society. Carrying capacity-refers to the optimum population size that the planet can support under present environmental conditions.
