Topic+7+Environmental+Value+Systems

**Topic 7 Summary Outline**


= **Introduction to Topic 7: Environmental value systems** = === Understanding environmental value systems is a central theme in this course. Therefore, this topic should be used in the analysis of environmental issues throughout the course, as well as being taught as a discrete unit. ===

= **7.1.1 State what is meant by an environmental value system.** = This is a particular world view or set of paradigms that shapes the way an individual or group of people perceive and evaluate environmental issues. This will be influenced by cultural (including religious), economic and socio-political context. An environmental value system is a system in the sense that it has inputs (for example, education, cultural influences, religious doctrine, media) and outputs (for example, decisions, perspectives, courses of action) determined by processing these inputs. //Ecosystems may often cross national boundaries and this may lead to conflict arising from the clash of different value systems about exploitation of resources (for example, ocean fishing and whaling).// = 7.1.2 Outline the range of environmental philosophies with reference to figure 6 (below) =

Topic 7 Vocabulary Practices
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Historical Overview of Environmentalism
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VIEW THE VIDEOS A through H. DECIDE WHERE EACH OF THEM LIE ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHIES CONTINUUM PRESENTED IN FIGURE. 6. >>>> **  A. Matt Ridley—The Natural Optimist  ** >>>> **B. Going Green—Militant bicyclists and more** >>>> **C. Rush Limbaugh blasts a Global Warming caller** >>>> **D. Bjorn Lomborg talks about Al Gore overselling Climate Change** >>>> **E. Cloud seeding and other Geo-engineering solutions to environmental issues** >>>> **F. Life in a Russian Eco-village** >>>> **G. Al Gore—Five years after //The Inconvenient Truth//** >>>> **H. Satish Kumar explains the meaning of Deep Ecology**

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Beginning with Charles Darwin's first encounter with the teeming ecosystem of the coral reef and drawing connections to the intellectual hyperproductivity of modern megacities and to the instant success of YouTube, Johnson shows us that the question we need to ask is, What kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas? His answers are never less than revelatory, convincing, and inspiring as Johnson identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of such ideas, and traces them across time and disciplines.

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