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Environmental Values

Environmental Values. Where do you fit on this earth?. Environmental Values. Vocabulary : Ecocentric Anthropocentric Technocentric Biocentric Holistic Being Green. Environmental Values. After watching this clip. How does it make you feel?

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Environmental Values

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  1. Environmental Values Where do you fit on this earth?

  2. Environmental Values • Vocabulary: • Ecocentric • Anthropocentric • Technocentric • Biocentric • Holistic • Being Green

  3. Environmental Values • After watching this clip. • How does it make you feel? • Does it bring up any questions you have about what we as humans are doing on this earth? 3 minutes (this video contains graphic pictures and may not be suitable for young viewers)

  4. Environmental Values • Do you think the government can decide the outcome of our beliefs when faced with environmental issues? • Do you think there should be laws and rights for our planet against society?

  5. Environmental Values • What are some things you can do to “fix it”?

  6. Environmental Values • Where do you stand? The glass is half empty or half full? Pessimistic or optimistic? • Environmental values (worldviews): • Ecocentric: Life-centered, respects the right of nature and us as humans depending on nature for our survival. • Anthropocentric (technocentric): human-centered (individually-centered), nature is beneficial to human survival but we are not dependent on nature. We are the dominant species on earth. • Cornucopians: Believes that there are infinite resources for human needs and we as a human race can solve any problem that arises. • Environmental managers (stewards): Believe that we must tend the earth and we have an ethical duty to protect the earth. • Deep ecologists: Earth-centered, All species have rights and values and that humans are over-consuming the earth’s resources. They value nature more than humankind.

  7. Environmental Values • Answer the questionnaire on page 18 in your companion book. • Under your notes in your journal. • When finished we will discuss each question. • Which value system do you more strongly agree with? Which one do you not agree with? (Based on your answers) • Where do you think the United States fits in the value system?

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