Cumulative individual environmental impacts constitute a moral, not merely economic, concern
Evidence
Because of connectedness of consequences, when the cumulated effects of individual behavior affect the well-being of others worldwide, lifestyle practices are a matter of morality. As responsible stewards of our environment for future generations, we must restore moral self-sanctions for environmentally destructive practices. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2969
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Cumulative individual environmental behaviors become moral issues once they harm distant others (similarity 0.96)
- Some human-caused environmental changes prove uncontrollable and irreversible (similarity 0.83)
- Environmentally sustainable futures require norm-changing values, not incremental fixes (similarity 0.83)
- Environmental harm is a product of human activity carrying a moral obligation (similarity 0.82)
- Attributing environmental harm to nature absolves people of moral self-assessment. (similarity 0.81)
- Curbing excessive consumption is the environmental remedy failing most badly (similarity 0.80)
- Market-driven consumer economics omits environmental costs from its calculations (similarity 0.79)
- Environmental degradation combines population, per-capita consumption, and technology damage (similarity 0.79)
- Major environmental degradation is quantifiable and undeniably human-caused (similarity 0.79)