Five levels of environmental awareness and concern

  • Accept that there are major environmental problems on a worldwide scale.

             (Global warming, fires, floods– life experience)

  • Accept that humans have caused many of those problems

             (Evidence of relationships between pollution and human actions. Natural History)

  • Accept that human use of energy and natural materials are basic to those problems.

             (Application of concepts of thermodynamics and biochemistry, )

  • Understand that ecology and evolution are ways to understand the processes affected by III.

             (Systems, connectivity, change, interrelationships)

  • Question what it means to be human.    (What are the values that need support?)