1.1 Environmental Value Systems

Question 1

Environmental Value System

Answer 1

a framework or set of beliefs that shapes how individuals or groups perceive and interact with the environment

It’s the lens through which we view environmental priorities and environmental decision making.

Question 2

Notable People of the Environment Movement:

David Attenborough

Answer 2

British broadcaster, writer and naturalist.
Since the 50s has been brining nature into people’s living rooms.

Question 3

Notable People of the Environment Movement:

Greta Thunberg

Answer 3

Teenager
Swedish
Climate Activist

Question 4

Notable People of the Environment Movement:

James Lovelock

Answer 4

He’s the guy (an environmentalist and futurist) who in the 1970s coined the concept of Gaia.

Question 5

Gaia Hypothesis

Answer 5

An idea put forward by James Lovelock in the 1970s likening the planet, or rather the biosphere to a vast self-regulating organism.

Its about big systems and interconnections.