Environmental Value Systems: Valuing The Environment

Environmental Value Systems. The sentence speaks for itself. Valuing the environment. An environmental value system is a specific view that sets the limits of an individual and society to identify the environment itself. This view is influenced by cultural aspects. Many cultures and even religions recommend perceiving the environment of this planet. Even with grasping the main idea of saving and perceiving the environment. There are three broad ideas that many people believe in. First one, technocentrism. This term proposes that humans and technology can work together to adapt any type of situation, not only to just adapt the situation but more significantly, solve the problem as well. In ecological terms, many believe that technology can

Light Green, Dark Green and Bright Green are also similar to categories mentioned before. Technocentrism could be defined as Bright green. The bright green group is on the upper hand in today’s world. They promise a bright future for the citizens as they believe and use technology in order to solve any environmental problems. They also believe, they have the ability to harness the technology and policy to meet our economic needs. That’s what refers to technocentrism, however the other shade of green, light green would be referred towards the ecocentric people. These people as mentioned earlier believe that everything has equal rights. Humans shouldn’t be considered more important when compared to other species. They also believe that the environment should be put first and should be everyone’s priority. It is their responsibility to protect the environment, as the decisions they take also reflect on the environment. They believe in reducing the usage and consumption of the environment. They believe in less pollution, as if there is more pollution then there the environmental will definitely get affected proportionally. This as you may have already figured out, the ecocentrics and the light green tribe share the same opinions. The third one being the anthropocentric share, is not as similar to the dark green tribe. As you read, technocentric and

For example, Acid rain. Technocentrist use alternative technology and encourage economic growth to reduce the amount of rain acid. Meanwhile the ecocentrist believe that we ourselves can reduce Acid rain and we don’t need any type of of technology to stop this. First of all we could change our transport system, we could reduce the amount of heat used at home, etc. So, technocentrism and ecocentrism beliefs are completely different for ultimately the same result. Next topic DDT (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane). Whilst this being a chemical, technocentrism believers want to substitute this chemical to a different chemical in order to reduce the dangers of the chemical, however ecocentrics believe that the usage of DDT should just be reduced itself. Scientists started observing ozone depletion in the stratosphere. Scientists began to realize that certain chemicals such as CFC’s were able to reach the stratosphere and affect the ozone layer. The technocentric people have solved this problem as there were substitutes for chemicals like CFCs and other ozone depleting chemicals. However the substituted chemicals are often greenhouse gases that can lead to climate change. So the technocentrism had an edge over the ecocentrism in this