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Lifestyle or how we conduct our lives is determined by three
main factors: 1) structure of society and how it is organized, 2) values and
ethics of the individual, 3) education and information.
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Individuals, organizations and authorities are three
different levels of actors with significant but different influence on the
environment
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Upbringing and education play fundamental roles in how a
person decides to live her life.
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The ethics of sustainable development starts with the concept
that we have moral duties to the people of future generations.
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Ethics could be seen as the answer to the question about
what we should do or ought to do.
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Ethics are the set of values we have and how we reflect upon
them and how we apply them.
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Ethics and morality are parts of our worldview or
philosophy.
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Ethics require that we are responsible for the actions we
take.
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Most decisions about environmental protection has a
dimension of conflict between values although it may not always be clear.
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Anthropocentric ethics where human interests are in the
centre, characterizes the policy documents of sustainable development.
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Biocentric or life-centered ethics could be difined as: the
view that living beings, and only them, has internal value and are morally
significant, that is can be treated morally right or wrong, and humans have
moral obligations to them.
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Ecocentric ethics holds that species or ecosystems are
objects of moral consideration and need to be respected.
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Environmental education needs to start at an early age to
touch your belief system.
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One of the first definitions of environmental education was
proposed in 1970.
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The Belgrade Charter from 1975 is a significant statement on
environmental education.
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According top the Belgrade Charter the Environmental
Education Objectives are: awareness, knowledge, attitude, skills, evaluation
ability and, participation.
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To be effective environmental education should be combined
with environmental communication.
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The study of environment related behaviour has its historic
roots in studies of health related behaviour.
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It is possible to change habits to more environmental
friendly ones, but it is a long process in many steps.
