11:375:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Ecosystem Services, Nature Deficit Disorder, Carsharing
19 Sep 2018
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Environmental worldview - is the assumptions and beliefs that you have about how the natural world works and how you think you should interact with the environment. Human centered environmental worldview - focuses primarily on the needs and wants of people. No problem school - we can solve any environmental population or resource problem with more economic growth and development. Free market school - the best way to manage the planet for human benefit is through free market global economy. Spaceship earth school - considers the earth to be a very complex machine that we can understand, dominate, change, and manage. Life centered worldview - believe that we have an ethical responsibility to avoid hastening the extinction of species through our activities. Earth centered worldview - believe that we have an ethical responsibility to take a wider view and preserve earth"s biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the functioning of its life support systems.
