"Environmental Values"

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In the chapter titled "Environmental Values" from the book, "Environmental Values in American Culture" by Willett Kempton, James S. Boster and Jennifer A. Hartley (1995), the authors try to find out about American?s feelings and ideas about the environment. The paper shows that one of the key terms in this discussion is the word 'values'. It shows that, according to the authors, the word 'values' means rules followed by people in their relationships with themselves, other people and living things. By interviewing different people and dividing their opinions into three sections, the authors attempt to form a general idea of the environmental values of Americans.

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"The authors think that most Americans relate to the environment in three different ways. In the first section, the authors assess how Americans look at the environment from the point of view of traditional religion or other forms of spirituality. Although the Bible contains sayings that seem to encourage human beings to control the environment, the respondents do not agree. They believe that God has created the environment for all living creatures. To them, it is not right for human beings to destroy the environment, so that other living things such as certain types of animals disappear forever from the planet. In this section, it is interesting that although people can believe in the same religion, their interpretation of the Bible can be different (Kempton et al., 1995, pp. 89-91)."

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