hello IB environmental students today we're going to be talking about environmental value systems let's jump in so there are a lot of environmental news and there's a lot of environmental history and that stuff has an impact you guys have learned throughout the year or throughout the summer whichever that this stuff is crazy and we have to come up with Solutions and those different case studies they all Impact our values and there's a huge amount of environmental history out there So eventually after all these things come to be they make our environmental value systems and what is that well the formal definition of an environmental value system is a world viiew or a set of thinking all right that's what this word means that shapes the way an individual or group perceives and evaluates environmental issues so think about it perception that's how you see something and evaluate is you weighing the pros and cons and this could be an individual or a whole group thinking about stuff this way and what we're going to see here is this is kind of a complex thing and it's so complex that we think about it as a system which can be influenced by cultural religion economics social and political thing factors and we're going to really think about it as a system and talk about it as a system so when we think about systems don't ever forget the system has to have inputs things going into it and so your environmental values the things that go into it are your background your education what's your culture what what's your family like what's your religion like and what media do you listen to or watch or read all of those things are going to influence what you value in environmental issues and then when we talk about systems we also talk about how change or move those are called transfers and Transformations this is how we process that information we might talk about it with each other in class or talk about it with our families at home or make judgments on how we should vote all those things are us making sense of our inputs and then we make those outputs which is our decisions what should we vote on how do we feel about something what are our perspectives and what should I do if I make action in my community so all of these things are system terms and we have to be able to talk about environmental values as a system there are a couple major categories of environmental values they are the following Ecentric nature centered right this is not just protecting the environment but we're protecting the environment because all living things deserve to be sustained all right the next one is anthropocentric anthrop meaning people people centered also protecting the environment but protecting the environment in order to manage the environment for future human needs so all of these are protecting the environment but the difference is the why behind that and so this one it's for humans I want to save trees not because the trees just deserve to be saved but I want to use them because they'll help me make paper make houses and the last major category is technocentric has the fix techno for technology that I can save the environment I don't have to be rushed about it but technology will help me control the environment will help me save it in the long run um so I'll protect the environment not just because I think I should or I have to but because I can and I will so technocentric is kind of one of the more bossy ways of thinking about stuff it's very human controlling so this is a spectrum where if we think about Ecentric being the most like nature hippity Dippity of these and anthropocentric that's kind of in the middle and technocentric at the far end we have some subcategories that sometimes come up throughout the course and these are both Ecentric but there's very extreme Ecentric where the people were more likely to like live in the woods and you know try to stop trucks from bulldozing trees that's very deep ecology and then we have kind of middle like this is a spectrum maybe in some ways I am Ecentric but in some ways I'm anthropocentric we call that soft ecologists and then between anthropocentric and technocentric I can use technology to manage the environment so this kind of is in between both of those and cornucopian is a very extreme version of technocentric very controlling and very very future oriented our one of our last couple things we're going to be doing here is we do need to be able to compare um two different societies and how they have environmental systems and those are our case studies we need to be able to name them specifically on a test quiz or IB exam so if I were to name this Society naming means give me the specific so I'd say native Americans have the following environmental value system they are very Ecentric they're probably deep ecologists and that's because they have deep respect for the natural world we can check out this quote to kind of make sense of that we wouldn't have to memorize it but we would need to be able to say specifically this Society Native Americans very Ecentric Give an example their religion is very tied to Nature very spiritual and they use that to make decisions in how they treat the world around them and how they protect the environment so that's very an extreme version of Ecentric kind of even reminds us a little bit of The Lorax and on the other end of the spectrum an another named Society we could compare with Native Americans is the European Pioneers they're very much focused on trying to make money and that's what we would call Frontier economics they were all moving across the um West to try to make money and find resources and they really thought resources would be unlimited that's very anthropocentric sounding um they had the term Manifest Destiny meaning expansion and using the environments not only good but I deserve it and it's obvious that I deserve it and it's going to happen and not only are they anthropocentric they're really in environmental managers they were moving across the West trying to find ways to think about the future utilize resources and they weren't necessarily being very clever about how they were exploiting resources and that's something we could evaluate um sometimes they would they would grow more than they needed to and that ended up being part of the Dust Bowl Etc so but on the Spectrum they're much more on the anthropocentric and technocentric side than the Native Americans our last thing though is now that you have these two comparisons you need to kind of think about what your environmental value system is and be able to justify and describe it so justify means you have to be able to give specific reasons so what are your stances on different philosophies how do they match up with some of these specific environmental values what are your inputs and outputs all right what makes you transfer or transform your thinking and do those thinkings change with it different issues so do you have a different stance on how we should control the human population size versus how you think we should use resources like trees do you have different feelings on making decisions depending on if it's more human based versus environmental tree based this is something for you to have to defend all right guys wonderful job you made it through environmental value system s