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 ANTHROPOCENTRISM

I believe that the natural environment should be used, developed, and enjoyed -- in short, nature should serve people. Creatively developing the land so that it’s more to my liking, and fully utilizing its resources or otherwise benefiting from such activity, is part of being human -- not something I should apologize for or feel guilty about. Doing this is not just morally defensible, it’s human nature. So basically I think nature should serve people. Having dominion over the natural world, people should not hesitate to use it to meet their needs and enhance their comfort. (Note: Some will bring religion into this, arguing that God gave humans dominion over nature and created the world with their happiness in mind.)

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WV Theme #25: Anthropocentrism --Alternate Concise Characterization with Wikipedia Entries

our needs >>other species', values Human Exceptionalism values prosperity theology, God-given dominion over nature 
denies Climate Change is human caused supports Geoengineering to remedy global climate change

summary Wikipedia article: Anthropocentrism 

 

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #25: Anthropocentrism

Environmental Skepticism  (from online encyclopedia)
Anti-Environmentalism (from online encyclopedia)
The Wise Use Movement  (from online encyclopedia)
Anthropic Principle (from online encyclopedia)
Speciesism  (from online encyclopedia)
Sagebrush Rebellion (from online encyclopedia)
Worldview Watch issue #7: Geoengineering, Economics, and Restraint
Worldview Watch #9: And Man Made Life
Chain of Being (from Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
"Overcoming Ideology," by Ron Arnold  (essay expressing "ideas that evolved...into wise use movement")
Have Dominion Over All These, by Rev. J. Michael Beers (from Religion & Liberty website)
Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America
The Evolution of Anthropocentrism (article by Reeve Basom)
Environmentalism or Individualism? by Robert James Bidinotti
Environmentalism as Religion (text of 2003 speech by Michael Crichton)
Property Rights Movement or Sagebrush Rebellion Revisited
Property Rights Foundation of America
Rachel Was Wrong website (attacks the legacy of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the environmental movement)
A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and New Environmental Debate, by Phillip Brick and McGreggor Cawley  (read excerpts of this 1996 book at Google Books)
The Wise Use Agenda  (as identified by an environmental organization)
What's Old & What's New About the Wise Use Movement
The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, by Lynn White
The Orthodox Church and the Environmental Movement, by E. Theokritoff
Environmental Theology: A Judeo-Christian Defense
Religion's Anthropocentric Conceit, by Bill Cooke
Ten Thousand Years of Crop Improvement: From Crop Domestication to Molecular Agriculture (2001 UCTV program)
"Geoengineering: Testing the Waters" by Naomi Klein (from October 27 2012 The New York Times)
"And Man Made Life"  (article in The Economist May 22 2010)
"The New Age of Extinction," by Bryan Walsh (April 13, 2009 Time article) 
"The Clean Energy Scam," by Michael Grunwald (4/7/08 Time article about why ethanol isn't eco-friendly)
"Growing Calls for Moratorium on Climate Geoengineering" by Stephen Leahy (Oct 26 2010 news item)
"Recruiting Plankton to Fight Global Warming" by Matt Richtel (4/30/07 NY Times article)
"Geoegineering," by Bryan Walsh (article about a great new idea in Time March 24 2008)
Alliance for America (umbrella group, Wise Use Movement)
The Western War Against Barbed Wire, by Bob Diddlebock (September 10, 2007 Time article)
What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? by Vaclav Klaus
Mountain States Legal Foundation
Warriors for the West, by William Perry Pendley (2006 book by president of Mountain States Legal Foundation)
Stewards of the Range
Man's Responsibility for Nature, by John Passmore (online encyclopedia article about Passmore and this book)
Anthropocentrism and Deep Ecology, by William Grey ("my aim is not to bury anthropocentrism but to defend it")_
Anthropocentrism, by John Seed  (deep ecology perspective on) 
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (Feb 2011 NY Times book review of book about America's "greatest environmental disaster")
The Real Anthropocentrism (blogger takes on the deep ecologists)
Non-Anthropocentrism in a Thoroughly Anthropocentrized World (article by Anthony Weston)
Anthropocentrism (essay by Penelope Smith -- an animal rights perspective) 
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