A green future demands lifestyle changes tied to shared moral values

Evidence

Making minor adjustments to environmentally and commercially unsustainable systems will not beget a green future. Achievement of a green future requires major lifestyle changes rooted in shared values linked to incentive systems that make environmentally responsible behavior not only normative but also morally right. Failure to make such changes will pass on to future generations a planet that is much hotter, more crowded, less habitable, poorer in resources and depleted of biodiversity. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2967 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Given this gap, the idea, one so powerfully expressed by Martin Luther King, that the nation must experience a fundamental change of the heart is not some sentimental, apolitical notion that ignores structural matters. It reflects, instead, that closing the value gap has both moral and political significance. We have to become better people by fundamentally transforming the conditions of our living together. This will require setting aside our comforting illusions. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 121 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Material barriers and funding rules constrain sustainable values from becoming practice. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 74; Environmentalism needs a worldview shift to relationality, not just policy fixes. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1036; Restoring the sick earth requires reversing mainstream values and economic priorities — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 1084 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Incremental reform cannot produce sustainability without value-driven lifestyle change #corroborates (0.95) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2967
• Environmentally sustainable futures require norm-changing values, not incremental fixes #corroborates (0.95)
• Closing the value gap requires transforming living conditions, not just hearts #complicates (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 121