11:374:279 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cornucopian, Deep Ecology, Conservation Movement
30 Dec 2019
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A person"s views about what is wrong or important in life. Collective conceptions of what is considered good, desirable, and proper (or bad, undesirable, and improper). They help predict what individuals do in areas like buying, parenting, and voting. They can be associated with important characteristics of whole societies. We as a group in this class, whatever we believe in, taking in our individual preferences, someone from outside trying to understand our beliefs is difficult because we are all different. Most historians date the origins of american environmentalism to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century romantics and transcendentalists, an elite community of artists and writers who celebrated wild nature as a source of spiritual renewal and redemption. They believed that only by preserving untrammeled wilderness could the nation ensure the intact landscapes remained to replenish the weary soul. A second form of environmental concern, conservationism, accompanied the. Progressive movement that emerged at the turn of the 20th century.
