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#Dignity, Desecration & Our Environment What if fundamentally changing the way #environmentalists frame their thinking, talking and acting on “the environment” enabled conservative thinkers and activists (at least those not paid to be climate denialists), to help rescue #ourenvironment from #desecration by centering the billion+ children #UNICEF reports are today at deadly risk in the 33 most climate vulnerable countries due to the increasing frequency of formerly “once in a thousand year” floods, droughts, famines, wildfires and extreme weather — and what their fate means for their, and our, individual and collective #dignity? In “Environment in the Balance; The Green Movement & The Supreme Court” 2010, professor Jonathan Cannon of UVA Law provides an insightful study of US Supreme Court jurispreduce on environmental matters. Cannon cites the organizing power of the 1978 study of sociologists Riley Dunlap and Kent Van Liere that found a recognizable set of assumptions about an ecological focused worldview had by 1978 coalesced into what they described as the “New Environmental Paradigm” (which they abbreviated as the “NEP”) and its was challenging the anthropocentric “Dominate Social Paradigm (which they abbreviated as “DSP”). Jonathan Cannon asserted the NEP challenge to the DSP parrelled John Haidt’s (author “The Righteous Mind; Why Good People Are Divided by Politics & Religion” 2012) later work popularizing the notion of distinct conservative and liberal “moral foundations.” With conservatives demonstrably more concerned about “sanctity-degradation” framing that produced a “disgust” response to perceived violation of “purity” and the liberal “care-harm” framing with its cocern over an “eco crisis”. Regularly resulting in liberals more often perceiving environmental issues as “moral issues” than conservatives. Unless the environmental issues were framed in an athoroprocentric manner highlighting the impact on human beings and framed as a matter on the “sanctity-degradation” plane, then conservatives would see the pro-environmental issue as moral issues - ie as a moral need - as often as the liberals. As UVA Law’s Jonathan Cannon noted, this was a finding supported by the work of Matthew Fienberg and Robb Willer in “The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes” published in 2013 in the journal of Psychological Science. Fienberg and Willler noted that they: “ . . . found that reframing proenvironmental rhetoric in terms of purity, a moral value resonating primarily among conservatives, largely eliminated the difference between liberals' and conservatives' environmental attitudes (Study 3).” For more on this possibility - see:

Do you want to know what #LocalCommunities in the #Americas are hoping the Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Corte IDH will cover in the #AdvisoryOpinion on the issue of #ClimateEmergency? Here an initial overview ⬇️ #NGOsteerIACtHR #MSCA

To be in Deep Democracy with a community requires that everyone is interdependent on one another. Interdependence is the essential connections between communities and nations, emphasizing that the welfare of one influences the global collective. This principle demands fair solutions to climate change, particularly championing the voices of marginalized and communities of the Global South who are disproportionately affected by environmental injustices. Interdependence encourages unified actions and approaches that are equitable, inclusive, and uphold the dignity of all communities. Learn more about Deep Democracy and other terms, like interdependence, in MSC's Glossary of Terms: https://lnkd.in/dBZVgUyc

Faith, history, and environmentalism converge in our latest episode with Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll. 🌟 Discover the role of African American communities in the fight for a just and sustainable future. #FaithAndJustice #SustainableLiving" FULL EPISODE: https://lnkd.in/ekr7tdiY

This video by Lawrence Lessig is a brilliant explanation of why representative democracy is broken and is as relevant today as 8 years ago when it was filmed! If we want to see action on climate, cost of living and other social and environmental issues, we need to first address the root cause of these failures, and this lies in the unequal voice that people have over policy decisions It's also a brilliant summary of why OurVoice was founded https://lnkd.in/e6Rqyf2

What does nature have to teach us about governance, democracy, and systems-level change? In this 2024 US Presidential Election cycle, everyone has an opinion...but has anyone asked the more-than-human world for advice on governance, leadership and democracy? This month, we are diving deep into the question, "What does nature have to teach us about governance, democracy, and systems-level change?” with Stosh Cotler and Deborah Bidwell. Stosh is a social justice leader who is blending her political work with biomimicry, and Deb is a Certified Biomimicry Professional and professor whose expertise lies in applying nature’s wisdom to address sustainability challenges. Read the conversation: https://lnkd.in/eAq3p3yP

A good history to consider. We need to turn it around. https://lnkd.in/eADh-rZV

If you work in global conservation this is worth a listen. Displacement of Indigenous Peoples for the “protection” of the environment reeks of the 20th century practices of wildfire suppression. CA Natives and countless other Indigenous Peoples continue/d cultural burning practices, after being displaced from their lands, and tried to promote the importance of fire in ‘land management’ but were ignored. Let’s not repeat the mistakes from the past, displacement and ignoring Indigenous knowledge. The Ahwahnee tribe, for example, was displaced in order to create Yosemite National Park, one consequence today is Yosemite Valley being a pile of kindle waiting to burn as rangers rapidly try to clear the overgrown forest and correct the mistakes of poor land management practices in the past. Protect the people = protect the land.

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