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How can we justify the existence of other species beyond the utilitarian approach presently used?
Posted on September 1st, 2009Categorized as Biodiversity, Earth System, Social-Ecological Systems Tagged as anthropocentrism, human needs, other species
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The anthropocentric view of the world as a place to benefit humans needs some revision, or at least, needs to incorporate some intangible benefits into it.
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Would human well being goal and operational mechanism be able to motivate the human society to transcend anthropocentric view for valuing biodiversity?
Posted on August 11th, 2009Categorized as Biodiversity, Interdisciplinary, Other, Social Science, Social-Ecological Systems Tagged as anthropocentrism, ecosystems, education, human well-being
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Through out the civilization process human beings have tried to organize themselves. Human well being goal has given rise to political system, economic system, social institutions. But all are governed by time bound action programmes which does not look beyond life time of maximum of two generations as private motive, time preference for present over future dominate. Non human biodiversity, their space in the ecosystem, role in human well being are least understood . This knowledge gap makes precautionary principle also fail to get defined and accepted. It is not technology, legislation or cooperation but education, ethics, that may lead to a smooth paradigm shift. Challenge is how to build that eco-centric goal which will embed in it anthropocentric goals. But theoretical solution will not be enough unless operational rules are laid out. Anthropocentric goals have led to human habitat design, mobility design etc. but without considering if that is in conflict with ecosystem’s well being. So challenge is how can the bigger picture be organised?
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Would human well being goal and operational mechanism be able to motivate the human society to transcend anthropocentric view for valuing biodiversity?
Posted on September 1st, 2009Categorized as Biodiversity, Climate, Interdisciplinary, Other, Social Science, Social-Ecological Systems Tagged as anthropocentrism, Biodiversity, eco-centrism, ecosystem well-being, human well-being, knowledge gap, precautionary principle
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Through out the civilization process human beings have tried to organize themselves. Human well being goal has given rise to political system, economic system, social institutions. But all are governed by time bound action programmes which does not look beyond life time of maximum of two generations as private motive , time preference for present over future dominate. Non human biodiversity , their space in the ecosystem, role in human well being are least understood . This knowledge gap makes precautionary principle also fail to get defined and accepted. It is not technology, legislation or cooperation but education, ethics, that may lead to a smooth paradigm shift. Challenge is how to build that ecocentric goal which will embed in it anthropocentric goals. But theoretical solution will not be enough unless operational rules are laid out. Anthropocentric goals have led to human habitat design, mobility design etc. but without considering if that is in conflict with ecosystem’s well being. So challenge is how can the bigger picture be organised?
