Values and Ecological Sustainability: Recent Research and Policy Possibilities

Our species must confront the looming ecological crisis, but perhaps more grave than that is the crisis of values that is upon us. The priority we have given to “developing,” and thus damaging, our habitat is partly the result of a set of values highly focused on maximizing economic growth, pursuing our own self-interested desires, and obtaining remarkably high levels of personal consumption. Self-enhancing, materialistic values are associated with less beneficent environmental attitudes, but worse than that, some research shows that they are associated with behaving in less ecologically sustainable ways.
 
Author: Dr. Tim Kasser

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