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Disregard for intrinsic value of nature
Name(s):
Instrumentalization of the world
Claim
Cost-benefit analyses fail to appreciate the multitude of intrinsic values in the natural world which are open to human life.
Broader
Human domination of nature
Decline of human relationship to nature
Dehumanization of man in the technological process
Narrower
Disrespect for the land
Undervaluation of nature in planning and decision making
This problem is a member of 21 aggravating loops
Aggravates
End of nature
Denial of right to life
Prettification of nature
Lack of environmental conservation
[in 2 loops]
Denial of rights of inanimate objects
Discrimination against non-human species
Criminal offences against the environment
[in 3 loops]
Inherent patriarchal distortion of planning
[in 10 loops]
Failure to take account of externalities of systems
[in 10 loops]
Aggravated by
Modernism
Fear of nature
Human exceptionalism
Shallow ecology policy
Undervaluation of community wealth
Strategy(ies)
Relating to nature
Capturing environmental value
Charging appropriately for water
Value(s)
Value
Disregard
Reference(s)
Devall, Bill and Sessions, George: Deep Ecology: Living as if nature mattered
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems