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Comments (0)If attitude, in large part, determines behavior, and we wish to change our behavior toward the natural world, then we must attend well to our attitude toward it. (The converse is also true: behavior shapes attitude, that is, what we do shapes what we believe. The two are interdependent; chicken and egg. For now, however, I focus on the attitude as the cause.) It is not much contested that the western, industrial world sees nature as a commodity, something, gratefully, put here to fill our needs and fulfill our desires. When mined, captured, gathered, contained and pressed into the service of humankind, natural resources become satisfiers - products that satisfy our various needs and appetites. We have no particular affection or connection to them beyond the experience of our using them. They are to be bought and sold, interchanged… read more
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