Perspectives on sustainability Flashcards
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Pairs of opposites problem oriented:
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Anthropocentrism - Ecocentrism
High susbstitutability - low substitutability
2
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Pairs of opposite solution oriented:
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Efficiency - Sufficiency
Technology - Lifestyle change
Individual - Political
Reformism - radicalism
3
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Anthropocentrism - Ecocentrism
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- what we believe have value
- moral standing to nature vs moral standing to only humans as individuals and nature instrumental
4
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High susbstitutability - low substitutability
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- how easy it is to replace tge goods and services offered by nature by human made capital
- high: easy to replace
- low: protect and keep nature intact, for humans
- if it is hard to replace careful to introduce new tech
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Efficiency - Sufficiency
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- reduce the amount of energy and resources used per product or service vs setting limits to how much of a certain service is needed
- efficiency: better tech and more efficient production
- sufficient: enough prosperity without growth, limits needed to reduce resource use
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Technology - lifestyle change
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- broader than e-s
- tech: see technical breakthrough as our main path to solving major global challenges. New tech so far been good for humans
- lifestyle change: cahnge of values and less materialistic lifestyle, charich and back to nature, lack og faith in tech and the development speed
7
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Individual - Political
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- opposites o who is responsible
- individual change: diet, travel, habits
- political: large problem that need to be centralized and not fair to blame the individual
8
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Reformism - radicalism
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- problems in the fundamental structure of society
- reformism: small adjustments needed, step by step, not fundamental change of system
- society needs to fundamentally change
