Sustainability

Question 1

What is sustainability

Answer 1

Being able to meet your needs and wants without compromising the lifestyles of future generations

Question 2

What is an environmental worldview

Answer 2

focuses on the question of what is important: human needs and wants OR the overall health of the environment

Question 3

What is a worldview

Answer 3

The way we see the world around us and how we perceive fundamental aspects of life

Question 4

What are the two main types of environmental worldviews

Answer 4

Anthropocentric and Biocentric

Question 5

What is an anthropocentric worldview

Answer 5

a human centered world where humans control the world

Question 6

What is a biocentric worldview

Answer 6

a life centered world where humans are a part of the environment and are one species interacting with every other species

Question 7

What is an ecological worldview

Answer 7

Recognizes the value of species. Humans have no right to interfere with the balance of nature

Question 8

What is an expansionist worldview

Answer 8

Exploitation of nature/environment are justified because it enables wealth. environmental/resource issues are fixed with management and technology