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Worldview themes associated with the spade symbol involve an individual’s relationship to the natural world and how his or her support of, or participation in, activities (including daily lifestyle, earning a livelihood, etc.) impact nature.
Select the worldview theme(s) below that you want to consider:
(Note:
If you start with the first one, we will lead you through each of them in turn
with prompts to click on!)
Related Worldview Development Questions:
1) Can I get beyond an egocentric perspective? Can I fit my experience, and the human experience in general, into the much larger content of space and time?
Related Worldview Theme #s: 3, 4, 10
2) Which is more important, short term economic growth or long term efforts to build a sustainable economy?
Related
Worldview Theme #s: 19, 22A, 23A, 40
3) Should powerful nations or multinational corporations be allowed to extend their power and influence over poor nations or powerless people?
Related Worldview Theme #s: 22B, 24
4) To what extent do I empathize with those engaged in a struggle to provide life's basic necessities?
Related Worldview Theme #s: 16, 21B, 24, 39A
5) Should human beings act as if they belong to nature or have mastery over it?
Related
Worldview Theme #s: 22A, 23A, 25, 27
6) Which do I value: freedom to consume or freedom to limit consumption?
Related
Worldview Theme #s: 16, 22A, 23A, 23B, 25, 26A, 26B, 27, 29A, 42,
43, 45A, 45B, 48
7) What obligations do people have to protect the natural environment? How can the market economy be reworked to value environmental health?
Related
Worldview Theme #s: 22A, 23A, 25, 27, 40, 49A
8) To what extent should an effort be made to limit the human population?
Related
Worldview Theme #s: 22A, 23A, 24, 25, 27, 42, 44A
9) To what extent do I believe that life is sacred and should be protected?
Related
Worldview Theme #s: 5B, 42, 44A, 44B
10) To what extent is debt--monetary, personal, or ecological--justifiable?
Related
Worldview Theme #s: 26A, 29A, 45A, 45B
11) Does technology typically improve the quality of life? Should its use be limited--if so, how? Do I prefer technological fixes or attitudinal fixes?
Related Worldview Theme #s: 13, 24, 40, 42, 46A, 47A
12) In resisting evil, is my approach more militarist or more pacifist?
Related
Worldview Theme #s: 17A, 17B, 29B, 39B, 46A, 46B, 47A, 47B
13) Does globalization need an ethical dimension?
Related Worldview Theme #s: 22A, 22B, 24, 32, 37B, 40, 42, 43, 50A, 50B, 51
Thoughts to Take With You:
| "The door of the future is opening onto a crisis..." | Barbara Ward |
|
"The Chinese...have a language symbol for crisis composed
of symbols for two
words: danger and hope" |
from Coming of Age in the Global Village |
| "This growing awareness that we are part of a global system -- a global village -- is a tremendously revolutionary concept...capable of remaking our entire planet" |
Adam Daniel Finnerty in No More Plastic Jesus |
| "Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?" | Issac Asimov |
| "Give Earth a chance!" | from bumpersticker, author unknown |
| "Insatiable is not Sustainable!" | from bumpersticker, author unknown |
| "In order to survive and flourish in nature, we must produce what we need...Yes, we too are part of nature, but our nature is that of a developer...It's time we defend a new vision: an inspiring individualist vision of human potential, in which each human being is honored as an end in himself." | R.J. Bidinotto |
| "What we need is the evolution of a new ethical consciousness" | E. Laszlo |
| "It is no longer a choice my friends between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence." | Martin Luther King |
| "One people, one planet, one future." | from bumpersticker, author unknown |
Caution: "As you shop in 'The Reality Marketplace' avoid spending your 'reality cash' too early, before you have seen everything!” from Coming of Age in the Global Village, by Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows
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