Eco-Types (eBook)

Five Ways of Caring about the Environment

Emily Huddart Kennedy (Autor)

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2022
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23957-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environmentWhen we picture the ideal environmentalist, we likely have in mind someone who dedicates herself to reducing her own environmental footprint through individual choices about consumption-driving a fuel-efficient car, for example, or eating less meat, or refusing plastic straws. This is a benchmark that many aspire to-and many others reject. In Eco-Types, Emily Huddart Kennedy shows that there is more than one way to care about the environment, outlining a spectrum of eco-social relationships that range from engagement to indifference.Drawing on three years of interviews and research, Kennedy describes five archetypal relationships with the environment: the Eco-Engaged, often politically liberal, who have an acute level of concern about the environment, a moral commitment to protect it, and the conviction that an individual can make a difference; the Self-Effacing, who share the Eco-Engaged's concerns but not the belief in their own efficacy; the Optimists, often politically conservative, who are confident in their relationship with the environment, doubt the severity of environmental problems, and resent insinuations that they don't care; the Fatalists, who are pessimistic about environmental decline and feel little responsibility to adopt environment-friendly habits; and the Indifferent, who have no affinity for any part of the environmental movement.Kennedy argues that when liberals feel they have a moral monopoly on environmental issues, polarization results. If we are serious about protecting the planet, we must acknowledge that we don't all need to care about the environment in the same way.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 23 b/w illus. 13 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: activism • Adult • Air Pollution • Auction • Benefit Corporation • Carbon Footprint • Career • Christie's • civic engagement • Civil Society • climate change • college town • compost • Conservatism • Consumerism • Cultural Capital • Cultural Hegemony • Cycling • dichotomy • Diego Rivera • ecofeminism • Ecological Crisis • Ecological Resilience • Ecology • ecosystem • electric car • Employment • Environmental economics • Environmentalism • Environmental issue • Environmentalist • environmental justice • Environmental Law • environmentally friendly • environmental movement • environmental organization • Environmental politics • environmental protection • Environmental Sociology • environmental values • Ethical Consumer • ethical consumerism • Extended producer responsibility • Externality • family farm • Fatalism • Food waste • forestry • Fossil fuel • Gardening • Great Pacific Garbage Patch • Greenwashing • Household • HVAC • income • ingredient • Innovation • keeping up with the joneses • left-wing politics • liberal elite • Liberalism • Local community • Loyalty • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment • Moral Authority • moral responsibility • multivariate analysis • new narrative • Nonprofit Organization • Omnivore • optimism • organic food • Payment • Pesticide • Plastic pollution • Power structure • Public Company • Public culture • Recycling • renewable energy law • Requirement • Respondent • result • Rural Area • save the planet • Scholarship • self-efficacy • Sierra Club • Social Environment • Social Science • sustainable business • sustainable consumption • take-out • Tate • The Righteous Mind • tote bag • Tupperware • Volunteering • Western World • yogurt
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23957-6 / 0691239576
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23957-6 / 9780691239576