Western “Way of Life”
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When considering the Western “way of life,” one should recognize that a psychological and emotional disconnection with nature has been shaped and nurtured throughout time by the influence of underlying assumptions about our relationship with the natural environment. These assumptions are deeply embedded within the Western way of life, but may often go unnoticed. Perhaps if we grow in awareness of how we have become disconnected from nature, then we can work with greater focus to overcome the challenges associated with the consequences of this disconnect, which is in some ways responsible for the current condition of rapidly deteriorating health of the natural world. How can this disconnect be explained and understood? How did this disconnect become so profound that humans, instead of living like ...
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- Anthropocentrism
- Biocentrism
- Brundtland Report
- Club of Rome (and Limits to Growth)
- Death of Environmentalism, The
- Earth Charter
- Earth Day 1970
- Earth Summit
- Earthlife Africa
- Ecological Crisis, The Historical Roots of Our
- Endangered Species Act
- Environmental Ethics Journal
- Environmental Policy Act, National
- Global Greens Charter
- Green Altruism
- Land Ethic
- Love Canal, Carter Administration and the
- Philosophy and Environmental Crisis
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Silent Spring
- Tragedy of the Commons
- United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
- United Nations Millennium Development Goals
- United Tasmania Group
- Wilderness Act of 1964
- Attfield, Robin
- Bailey, Liberty Hyde
- Berry, Reverend Fr. Thomas
- Berry, Wendell
- Bookchin, Murray
- Borlaug, Norman
- Callicott, J. Baird
- Carson, Rachel
- d'Eaubonne, Françoise
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Fuller, Buckminster
- Gandhi, Mohandas
- Gore, Jr., Al
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Hargrove, Dr. Eugene C.
- Hayes, Denis
- Leopold, Aldo
- Lovelock, James Ephraim
- Marsh, George Perkins
- Mathews, Freya
- Muir, John
- Mumford, Lewis
- Naess, Arne
- Passmore, John
- Pinchot, Gifford
- Rolston, Holmes, III
- Singer, Peter
- Steffen, Alex
- Taylor, Paul W.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Warren, Karen
- Animal Ethics
- Anthropocentrism
- Biocentric Egalitarianism
- Biocentrism
- Civic Environmentalism
- Climate Ethics
- Deep Ecology
- Deep Green Theory
- Ecocentrism
- Ecofascism
- Ecofeminism/Ecological Feminism
- Economism
- Ecophenomenology
- Environmental Pluralism
- Gaia Hypothesis
- Green Party Ethical System, Four Pillars of the
- Hannover Principles
- Human Values and Sustainability
- Instrumental Value
- Intergenerational Justice
- International Association of Environmental Philosophy
- Intrinsic Value
- Kantian Philosophy and the Environment
- Marshall, Alan (Libertarian Extension)
- Pragmatism
- Strong and Weak Sustainability
- Sustainability, Seventh Generation
- Sustainability and Distributive Justice
- Ten Key Values of the Greens
- Utilitarianism
- Adaptive Management
- Agriculture
- Biodiversity
- Bright Green Environmentalism
- Business Ethics, Shades of Green
- China
- Conservation
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Democracy
- Development, Ethical Sustainability and
- Ecological Restoration
- Ecology
- Ecopedagogy and Ecodidactics
- Ecopolitics
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Policy
- Ethics and Science
- Genetic Engineering
- Globalization
- Green Liberalism
- Green Party, German
- Greenwashing
- Precautionary Principle
- Preservation
- Sierra Club
- Social Ecology
- Sustainability and Spiritual Values
- Technology
- United Nations Environment Programme
- Urbanization
- Carbon Offsets
- Consumption, Business Ethics and
- Consumption, Consumer Ethics and
- Ecological Footprint
- Ethical Vegetarianism
- Local Food Movement
- Marketing, Consumption Ethics and
- Organic Trend
- Sustainability, Business Ethics and
- Sustainability, Consumer Ethics and
- Western “Way of Life”
- Environmental Justice Ecology, Radical
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
- Environmental Values and Law
- Forest Preservation Laws
- Green Ethics in the Legal Community
- Green Law Trends
- Green Laws and Incentives
- Post-Construction Landscape Laws
- San Pedro Border Fence
- Should Trees Have Standing?
- Urban Tree Management Ordinances
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