Chapter 25 Review PowerPoint

1. Chapter 25 Review PowerPoint By: Anthony Wall II

2. 25.1 What are some Major Environmental Worldviews • An Environmental Worldview is how a person thinks they should have a part in the world and how they impact the world. • Many Different Types • On the contrary, Environmental Ethics are what a person thinks about an issue and what is right and wrong with our behavior and attitudes toward the environment.

3. Main Environmental Worldviews • Planetary Management: • We are apart from nature and can use it to better ourselves. They also believe that because we have good technologies that we will never run out of resources. • Stewardship • While we shouldn’trun out of resources we should not waste them. It is our responsibility to take care of the Earth and to manage it well. • Environmental Wisdom • This Worldview says that we are dependent on nature and should limit our resource use because nature is not only for us to use.

4. Many People feel that Human-Centered Worldviews would fail. • Many feel that Human-Centered worldviews would and will fail because of many reasons: • We assume that we know or can gain enough knowledge to understand how the Earth works and how to be good stewards. • We wrongly feel that we can understand the Earth by thinking about the Earth as a spaceship of as an Island. • Many people feel that the whole Worldview thing is wrong and that we should just use our ethics to decide what to do.

5. 25.2 What is the Role of Education in Living More Sustainably • The Foundation of Environmental Literacy: • Natural capital matters because it supports the earth’s life and our economies. • Our ecological footprints are immense and are expanding rapidly; in fact, they already exceed the earth’s estimated ecological capacity • Ecological and climate-change tipping points are irreversible and should never be crossed. Once we cross such a point, neither money nor technology can save us from the resulting con- sequences, which could last for thousands of years or even longer.

6. Nature in Our Lives • Bio mimicry is on the rise. This is when we take things that are found in nature and try to implement them into everyday life. • An example of this is how we are using the structure of a Gecko’s foot to make a better adhesive tape. • We can learn a lot from the Earth. The more that we learn, the more that we know. The more that we know means that we can learn more.

7. Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethics • “We should protect nature, not conquer it” • In 1933 he became a professor at Wisconson University. In 1935 he helped to found the U.S. Wilderness Society. • He felt that we need to take care of the Earth’s land and that if we didn’t then we would pay the consequences. • We need to protect nature not only for the economy, but for the beauty

8. 25.3 How Can We Live More Sustainably • To live more sustainably we need to live without as much stuff. Material things are one of the worst things that have happened to humans. • As comedian George Carlin said “A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. It’s a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” • Many of the richest people in the world are living a voluntarily simplistic life. This is where they are living with less so that what they have means more.

9. What Signifies Enough? • Many of the world’s religions talk about how you should be neither impoverished nor affluent (that means rich). • Mahatma Gandhi’s beliefs was that there is a place of “enoughness” that we need to find. • The earth provides enough to satisfy every person’s need but not every person’s greed. When we take more than we need, we are simply taking from each other, borrowing from the future, or destroying the environment and other species.

10. How Can we have a Sustainable Attitude • Don’t fall victim to the blind technological optimism or the gloom-and-doom pessimism. • There is no one way to magically fix the Earth. We all need to pitch in and help the people who are trying to fix everything. • As Mahatma Gandhi told us: • “Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear.”