Worldviews
What is a worldview?
A set of beliefs and values that are honoured and withheld by a number of people.
How a person or group interacts with the world around them.
What is a carbon sink?
A carbon sink is something that stores large amounts of carbon, like the ocean, forests, or the arctic permafrost.
What is community resilience?
The ability to prepare for and anticipate shocks to the system, and withstand these disruptions
What is business sustainability?
Business should create wealth and make people's lives better
- not to be confused with concepts like triple bottom line, CSR, or shared value
What is decolonization and indigenization?
Decolonization: The removal of colonial elements
Indigenization: The addition or redoing of Indigenous elements
What are the core planetary boundaries?
Climate change and biosphere integrity
How many social floors are there, and what are some of them?
12
Water, Food, Health, Education, Income and Work, Political Voice, Peace and Justice, Social Equity, Gender Equality, Networks, Energy, and Housing
What is a stakeholder and a shareholder?
A shareholder is someone who owns a piece of a company through shares.
A stakeholder is someone with some kind of interest or stake in the operations, and decision-making of a company.
What are some of the aspects of Western Worldviews?
Scientific and skeptical
One truth
Compartmentalized society
Land and resources should be available for development
Linearly structured and future-oriented
What is ocean acidification?
The ocean absorbs carbon from the atmosphere, which is then turned into carbonic acid, making the ocean acidic and inhospitable to many marine animals/plants.
What is the Anthropocene?
A period of time where human activities have a substantial impact on earth's systems and change the climate and our ecosystems.
What is the main objective of doughnut economics?
To create a system that safeguards our planetary systems, while maintain basic social foundations. The goal is to create a just and safe space for humanity to thrive.
Regenerative and Distributive
What are some aspects of Indigenous Worldviews?
Spiritually oriented and systems-based
Many truths
Society in a state of relatedness
Land is sacred
Non-linear and cyclical time?
What is the Montreal Protocol and what planetary boundary does it relate to?
The Montreal Protocol was an agreement passed by all countries to ban the use of CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons) which caused the hole in the ozone layer.
Relates to Novel Entities.
What are four common elements of community resilience?
1. The foundation of current community wellness
2. The resources available for future wellbeing
3. Preparedness to respond to and withstand acute shocks
4. Transformative capacity and adaptability in response to stresses or
changing circumstances
What is the main issue with value creation?
We don't really have a clear definition of what value is anymore as a society. Value creation and value extraction are blurred together.