The environmental election campaign - What's it all about?
These are 3 different ways that we humans view our relationship with other species and the world we inhabit.
- the earth and the living and non living things that inhabit it
- can be compared to a single living organism
- anything that we do to our environment and to other species
- we do to ourselves
- it is in our own interests to treat nature with respect
- since we are part of nature
ANTHROPOCENTRISM (people centred) - The view or belief
- that people are in charge of the environment
- resources - raw materials and other species -
- can be used as we require them
- provided we have laws to limit the extent of environmental damage
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- compensation for those that are harmed by environmental damage.
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- we can use the earth's resources without limit
- because technology will solve any problems which arise from our excesses
- and find use new resources to use when we have depleted existing resources
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