envirocentrism

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noun

The quality of being envirocentric.

Scrabble 21

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nounenvirocentrism (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableThe quality of being envirocentric.

    At the same time, however, one can hardly avoid concluding that their promotion of bio- and ecocentrism or envirocentrism is often carried to notable excess.

    2000, James B. Reichmann, “6. Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism, Envirocentrism”, in Evolution, Animal ‘Rights’, and the Environment, Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, “Concluding Summary and Critique”, page 344
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    This is really the concept that meets with the most direct resistance from conventional disciplines. 350 years of science has taught us the exact opposite. You have called this view, in the past, an extreme kind of organocentrism. It is. You have called for a compromise between extreme organicentrism and extreme envirocentrism.

    1993 July 13, William T. Powers, “PCT revolution”, in bit.listserv.csg-l (Usenet), message-ID <01H0HKQUULNM00006B@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>

    That may be, but the fact is, envirocentrism was completely alien to the religion of our Asatru forebears. Those who today portray the real, historical religion of our ancestors as "nature centered" are either falsifying our history, or are ignorant of it. What historical Asatruar might have believed, and how they might have acted in another time and place is stuff for science fiction, not reality.

    2000 May 29, Rorik, “Re: Nature religion? An OR perspective”, in alt.religion.asatru (Usenet), message-ID <IzBY4.8043$v7.611520@news-west.usenetserver.com>

    Since the predominant capitalist system has tended to co-opt significant areas of conservation thought, conservation’s ideological fault lines lie along complicated ethical terrain. They include varying ethical views of the following: / • Anthropocentrism and envirocentrism, including differing religious and philosophical views

    2011, “Conservation”, in Julie Newman, Paul Robbins, editors, Green Ethics and Philosophy: An A-to-Z Guide, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 77

    Envirocentrism expands the concept of community beyond human interactions to give basic rights to natural surroundings that humans are obligated to protect as members of the land community, the socioenvironmental system of place-based interactions.

    2012, Timothy Collins, Cornelia Butler Flora, “Part VI. Grassroots Activism [§] 34. The Community Capitals Framework: A Systematic Approach to Environmental leadership”, in Deborah Rigling Gallagher, editor, Environmental Leadership: A Reference Handbook, volume 1: “Perspectives on Environmental Leadership”, SAGE Publications, Rolf A. Janke, →ISBN, “Exploration” § “Ethical Underpinnings” § “Natural Capital: Envirocentrism”, page 318, column 2

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