11:374:279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Veganism, Personal Finance, Cornucopian

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Environmental Policy, Institutions, and Behavior
• Course: 11:374:279
• Professor: Professor Oberg

Document Summary

Lecture #2: what are values? (articles: layzner (pages 1-5 and 17-20) and watson and wilson (https:// content. sakai. rutgers. edu/access/content/group/18cc5f79-b086-43a1-b265-2441df112d63/ Online_sakai%20readings/part%201%20watson%20_%20wilson%202015- cornucopian%20view%20of%20nat_l%20parks. pdf): values about the environment, social values, individuals can think good, bad, or important, environmentalists and cornucopians, recognizing a value"s conflict. What are social values: collective conceptions of what is considered good, desirable, and proper. Environmental conflicts (layzner: environmental conflicts may appear to revolve around arcane technical issues, but in fact almost all of them involve a fundamental disagreement over how humans ought to interact with the natural world. Enviros" beliefs (layzner: conservation, prudence, humans are equal to other living organisms, should use natural resources responsibly (conservationists), pristine wilderness (preservationists), cornucopians" beliefs (layzner, economic growth, individual liberty, unlimited resources from the environment, free market, less government control. Distinction of both parties: within the parties, many individuals may not use the same methods.