Environmental+Values

 //Environmental Values,// by John O'Neill, Alan Holland & Andrew Light (2008)  Sandy Price  There are many conflicting pulls on our ecosystem. This is a book about how to decide which of these interests to satisfy - and which to sacrifice.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SOURCES OF THE CONFLICTS Living FROM the World  . The availability of natural resources is a precondition to our existence. 



Living IN the World Environments also matter to us for social, cultural and aesthetic reasons.

Living WITH the World

We coexist with other species on the planet, and together, we form a web of life that sustains us all - assuming human behavior doesn't destroy the habitat.

VALUE CONFLICTS  Maximizing any of these three "relationships" with the earth could (and does) cause conflicts for the other relationships. Use of natural resources, obviously, can negatively impact the ecosystem. Making decisions about environmental conflicts has a "distributional dimension." It entails distribution costs, benefits and damages across ecosystems, species & human social subgroups - and even across time - e.g. current generation benefits from uses to the detriment of future generations. This is a difficult scenario to come to terms with as we cannot always predict what the future implications of our current actions will be and who those decisions will affect. It seems impossible to live a life which has no detrimental effect on future generations. -nika Nika you are so right. It is not only incredibly difficult but probably impossible to get this right. But the authors are saying that we have to realize that the impacts of our decisions go this far and wide, and think about it as "well" as we can. They are also pragmatists, like Moore, and are less interested in theories about it, and more interested in on-the-ground wrestling with problems - sandy -*Tear* Your Wiki is beautiful. Living from, in and with the World. ~Krystle krystle, sorry i changed your color by accident and can't figure out how to detach it from what i typed. also... thx for the compliment but the "living from, in and with" was from the book! - Sandy

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