Historical Influences
Name the person who Greenbelt Movement.
Wangari Maathai.
What is Perspective?
It is how a person views a particular situation (viewpoint of a person)
Cornucopian definition
Extreme technocentrists who believe that the world has infinite resources to support the growing population, achievable by reliance on technology.
Technocentrist view on Water demand and exploitation.
Freely available, innovative methods to ensure availability of water (recycling, desalinisation), water sources should be tapped, technology to overcome problems.
Led to the start of the Environmental Movement?
Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" in 1962.
What is a Value Survey?
Value surveys can be used in order to determine the value of a resource to a given community or social group or their values that affect a particular environmental issue.
What is an EVS?
An EVS is a particular worldview of a person or group of individuals which shapes the way they perceive or evaluate environmental issues.
Ecocentrist view on climate change.
Consumption of fuel should be limited, farming methods modified, reforestation, switch to greener sources of energy.
Explain the Chernobyl Disaster.
Steam explosions, radiation in the atmosphere leading to increased risks of leukemia, and psychological distress including ptsd. Mutations of organisms and pollution of land, water and soil.
What is intrinsic value?
The value that a thing has in and of itself. Intrinsic value does not depend on whether a thing is useful or beneficial to people.
Define the 3 EVS.
Ecocentrism: Regard themselves as subject to nature rather than in command of it & distrust technology.
Technocentrism: Have unwavering faith in technology and industry, and they believe that people have complete control over nature.
Anthropocentrism: Literally means ‘being human-centred’, but in its most important philosophical form it is the ethical view that only humans have intrinsic value.
View of technocentrists and ecocentrists on ecological footprint.
Ecocentrists: Reduce reliance on fossil fuels, change in lifestyle. Technocentrists: No change needed, aspire better standard of living, economic growth, prosperity and scientific advances.
Explain the Minamata Bay Disaster.
Mass poisoning in 1950s due to entrance of methylmercury in the bay, contaminating the seafood. Biomagnification and bioaccumulation of mercury (non-biodegradable substance)
4 examples of inputs for development of perspectives.
Education, religion, global/local events, family, economic conditions, socio-cultural norms, laws, experience.
Draw the worldview input/output diagram.
Input (Education, experience, cultural influence/ religion/ media). Storage (EVS, Value and Arguments). Output (Decisions, Evaluation, Perspective, Action).
Ecocentrist and Technocentrist view on Fossil Fuels.
Eco: Reduction in CO2, alternative energy sources
Techno: High standard of living, greener technologies, sequester carbon, continue use of fossil fuels.