Environmental Studies Quiz #6

The 5 voices

• Deep Ecology

• Ecofeminism

• Voluntary Simplicity

• Total Liberation

• Ecotheology

Deep Ecology

It emphasizes that the richness and diversity of all life on Earth has value, which is threatened by human activities. Second, it also focus in how maintaining biodiversity requires a decrease in human impacts on the natural environment and substantial increases in wildernesss areas. Therefore, economic, technological, and cultural changes are necessary

Ecofeminism

It is a blend of feminist and ecological though that emphasizes conceptual connections between the patriarchal domination of women by men and the domination of nature. It sets the problems of women and the ecological crisis in a common framework. This domination of both nature and women is not caused by human nature, but by specific institutional arrengements developed and controlled by men

Voluntary Simplicity

It promotes a movement away from materialism, excessive consumerism, and unsustainable consumption. It has a limited appeal, since it is usually overwhelmed by the more powerful forces promoting consumerism. It is also about focusing less on the things we are giving up (materialism and consumption, for example) and more on the things we are gaining (such as time for leisure, for ourselves, and for our families)

Ecotheology

It argues that the Western biblical tradition was the root of the modern environmental crisis. It also states that more science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecologic crisis until we find a new religion, or re-think our old one

Total Liberation

It is the new frame that seeks to transform the social and cultural systems that currently harm people, ecosystems, and animals. This new frame comes after a transformation that occurs when old undertandings of a problem are changing and/or new understandings are being produced