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Chapter 25:  Environmental Worldview, Ethics, and Sustainability


Section 1:  What are Some Major Environmental Worldview?

​Concept 25-1:  Major environmental worldviews differ on which is more important--human needs and wants, or the overall health of ecosystems and the biosphere.

Section 2:  What is the Role of Education in Living More Sustainably?

Concept 25-2:
 The first step to living more sustainably is to become environmentally literate.

Section 3:  How Can We Live More Sustainably?

Concept 25-3:
 We can live more sustainably by becoming environmentally literate, learning from nature, living more simply and lightly on the earth, and becoming active environmental citizens.


Files:
APES Ch. 25 Presentation
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APES Ch. 25 Glossary
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Key Terms:
  • anthropocentric 
  • biocentric
  • planetary management worldview
  • spaceship-earth worldview
  • stewardship worldview
  • sustainable living
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