Spatial-temporal disconnect makes environmental conservation an abstraction not a necessity

Evidence

Under these modernized conditions, lifestyle practices are disconnected in time and place from the very ecological systems that provide the basis for them. Environmental conservation becomes an abstraction rather than an experienced necessity. Ecological destruction by high-consumption lifestyles makes this type of consumerism an ethical issue. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2529

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the mechanism by which conservation stops being ‘experienced necessity’ and becomes ‘abstraction’ — the crucial pivot the whole chapter turns on.
• XREF: connects to: Environmental politics needs a third path between local experiments and macro-association — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 349; Seasonal territory asserted by migrating birds overrides documented human ownership — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 134; Contradictory engineered water management signals the loss of flood equilibrium — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 424 (+6 more)