Aesthetic preference often quietly drives ecological choices

Evidence

I pause and consider whether the yellow dyed may be worse than the white bleached. I have my suspicions, but I choose the yellow as I always do. It looks so nice with green or purple ink, like a garden. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 722

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Metropolitan residents’ demand to watch wildlife reframed conservation as esthetic appreciation — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 842; Wildlife preservation came to depend politically on metropolitan voters’ esthetic interest — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 841; Aesthetic convention can overrule biological health cues in mate preference — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 135 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Aesthetic convention can overrule biological health cues in mate preference #exemplifies (0.75) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 135
• Aesthetic judgment is the processing of social relations #expands (0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 369
• Spaciousness contributes equally to naturalness and dominates pleasantness perceptions #expands (0.72) — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 755
• Capitalist circulation velocity drives cultural immediacy as an aesthetic style #exemplifies (0.72) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 50
• Aesthetic comparisons across eras secretly measure the whole mode of production #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 659
• Tastemaker curation, not anti-elitism, sustains a thriving cultural ecosystem #exemplifies (0.70)