Value-Belief-Norm

Greenpeace started in 1969 when a group of Vancouver -area environmentalists gathered in establishing the “Don’t Make a Wave Committee” (Rex Weyler, 2004). “This committee was founded in response by the frustrated Sierra Club members, because the organization they felt an affinity with, refused to protest against nuclear weapons testing” (Lee, 1995: 8).

Growing up in Switzerland and Oregon, I learned that nature is greatly valued and it is necessary to respect the environment to prevent impending environmental collapse. Living in a society whose morals and ethics include

As global warming intensifies, glaciers melt and forests reduced，more and more people begin to be concerned about environment problem. Environment is the fundamental of our existence，so we need protect environment. Paul H. Rubin in his article “Environmentalism as religion” says “But there is another sense in which environmentalism is becoming more and more like a religion: It provides its adherents with an identity”(399). He thinks environmentalism like a religion, and environmentalism and religion have many same characteristic. I agree Rubin’s opinion. Like religion, environmentalism has difference tribe, environmentalist like a missionary, environmentalism and religion both have food taboos and they also

The subject of environmentalists is one that is just asking for a series of childish bickering amongst fully grown adults. No one can ever agree to disagree because everyone wants to be right. Of course, that is impossible, but God forbid that people just come to a reasonable agreement to leave opinions as they are, opinions. Mr. Edward O. Wilson does a very good job illustrating how pointless these political arguments are. How does he do this? He simply writes his own passages, setting himself in the shoes of both of the opposing parties.

The Sierra Club's influence on modern environmentalism The Sierra Club is the nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization(Sierra Club 1). The Sierra Club was founded by conservationist John Muir in 1892(Sierra Club 1). The Sierra Club had lots of people, with about 2.4 members, so they had enough resources to make a big impact in things like uranium mining, and habitat protection.

In The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson, Wilson, a contemporary scientist, illustrates the unproductive nature of environmentalists and the people-firsts or anti-environmentalists. Wilson also identifies the parallels of each group and their unexpected similarities. He satirizes the language that each group would typically use against the other. It is concluded that people in today’s world are all too literal. When everything said is taken to heart, it is difficult for the real issues to ever be resolved.

The bulk of The Sierra Club’s stances and viewpoints are rife with notions that display the liberal agenda of the organization. Environmentalism and the changes needed to be made to support it are none other than liberal perspectives. As, conservatives, such as blue collar workers and oil companies, are afraid and threatened by new legislation to protect the environment. So naturally, the conservatives oppose such changes in order to continue their operations and not succumb to new environmental measures. This idea is found within the erstwhile Grand Canyon Campaign, in which The Sierra Club compromised with the Bureau of Reclamation in order to save the Grand Canyon from flooding. Though, the bureau still got their power in terms of coal power plants. However, the liberal agenda can be identified most apparently within the various acts of legislation the pushed through to get passed. “The Sierra Club’s political program is dedicated to electing clean air, clean water and climate action champions at all levels of government” (Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia 2016). These Acts dealing with air, water, and other subjects like endangered species, has led to various implementation of regulation within society. The idea of regulations are more liberal as they trust in the government to help take action with these acts rather than a conservatism view in which they believe the government should not be so intrusive. However, despite The Sierra Clubs political spectrum, it is

The Sierra Club is the nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. The club is the forefront of the movement to protect America's wildlife and wild places. The Sierra Club was founded by John Muir in 1892. The purpose behind the club is to explore and enjoy nature while protecting it at the same time (Buren, Michael). They also support and cooperate with the of people and the government in preserving the forest and other natural feature of the Sierra Nevada mountains (Buren, Michael).

After a while, the Sierra Club was also recognized for its promotion of a responsible use of the ecosystem, a sustainable use of the planet’s resources and a better education of the population in the subject of protecting and restoring nature (Worster 466). It was and still is, engaged in an eternal fight. The Sierra Club is considered as one of the first grassroots organization related to the environment in the world and it is still an

1. Name/Describe one value that environmentalists would express about the environment. What is one group/person/organization that has expressed this value?

An environmentalist is a person worships the environment and cares for nature more than people. Christians and others share the common perception that environmental ethics exist for how human beings should relate to the land, the free market perceptive and the environmental perceptive. Humans share a relationship with all creations of the earth. But as humans, they find themselves as having a role in the created order which is they have a closer relationship with the creator who has charged them with acting responsible within his creation. Even allowing a common complaint of environmental activists is that Stewardship means that the earth was made exclusively because of human beings - that having dominion upper nature is the same as

Further, the literature review suffers from an additional lack of clarity in the paragraph on the bottom of page 634. Here, the authors begin to delve into the theory and rationalization behind including uncertainty as an appropriate measure. The authors write, “Uncertainty can affect an individuals willingness to act on environmental beliefs in several ways” signaling to the reader that a laundry list of factors is to follow. However, they only make mention of one tangentially linked evidence based factor, that an increase in the complexity of issues leads to increased uncertainty in the scientific community. No further examples in support of uncertainty follow this one. Instead, the authors pivot towards unfounded speculation about uncertainties role in individuals willingness to take environmental action, and then they abruptly transition to their discussion of trust. The issue of uncertainty persists in the manner with which the authors have chosen to operationalize their research question.

Humans must act and take precautions to avoid initiating irreversible trends. Better management of environment resources includes a shared moral and social responsibility of conservation. With the challenge from accelerating destruction of environment, the global environmental crisis is becoming more urgent every day. Sierra Club shared a vision of humanity living in harmony with the Earth, and our world will be saved from the threat of unalterable planetary disaster. Ten years ago, Sierra Club started adopting Smart Energy Solutions, America’s Wild Legacy, and Safe Healthy communities for long-term conservation.

Someone who cares greatly about the Earth and the nature on it is environmentally conscious. This kind of person is willing to go to great lengths in order to protect and preserve the world that they live in. Environmentally conscious people will recycle, or will even volunteer to collect and discard garbage in their neighborhood. These individuals make sure to buy products that are environmentally friendly, or even made out of recycled materials. They will strive to bring awareness to their society, in any way that they can, the importance of helping and preserving this world. Nature conscious people plant trees and flowers; they try to conserve energy in any way that they can. These individuals can often be seen participating in rallies or protests for the protection and wellbeing of nature. Usually, environmentally conscious people are extremely determined, and will do whatever it takes to guard their world.

In this paper I argue that the Strong Program purpose to provide robust explanations of belief aquirement is limited by its commitment to the symmetry principle. the symmetry principle is intended to drive home the fact that epistemic norms are socially consists. My debate here is that even if our epistemic norm are fully naturalized even relativized they anyway can play a pivotal part in why human being adopt the beliefs that they do. In fact, sometimes the fact that a belief is locally endorsed as rational is the only reason why an human conttrol it. In this way, norms of rationality have a powerful and unique role in belief formation. But if this is true then the symmetry principle’s emphasis on ‘sameness of type’ is misguided. It has the