Poll: 1, 2 or 3 Environmentalists care equally about other people and the Environment?

Question

So what do environmentalists care most about?

Please answer 1, 2 or 3
Answer 1: The Environment?
Answer 2: Mankind?
Answer 3: Or do you need to care equally about both the Environment and Mankind to call yourself an Environmentalist?

Please feel free to comment on your answer if you wish but a 1, 2 or 3 answer is fine.

Answer 1

I think 3.

Humans are just one part of the environment, so an environmentalist should care equally about both.

Answer 2

1

Answer 3

1

Answer 4

Any of the answers above is possible, although there could be more answers. An environmentalist is a person who actively takes measures to help the environment. An environmentalist can also be any number of other "-ists," such as a humanist, anarchist, Buddhist, cyclist, etc, etc. The fact that someone is an environmentalist says nothing about what they care most about, but rather that they care much about the environment.

Answer 5

1, but it should be 3. Man, environment, it's all part of the big picture. I just graduated from MSU with a degree in Fisheries and Wildlife, and the curriculum is just now in the past 5 years or so, starting to drift towards addressing the fact that no matter what you try to do to help the environment/world, humans will be involved somewhere in the process so integrating them into the solution from the very beginning will save lots of grief and time in the long run. I hope we continue to move in this direction of a holistic view of man and the environment, seems to make sense to me.

I think researching the ways the native Americans lived and used the land would be beneficial, they coexisted with nature for hundreds of years and we came in and messed it up in under 200....hmmm.

Answer 6

1 because in the word "ENVIRONMENTalist" is the word ENVIRONMENT, even though humans are part of the environment, they can change the way they live etc. whereas the environment, the world around us can be damaged by humans, so sometimes environmentalists are against humans. If they were for humans they would by HUMANists Hope that helped!

Answer 7

My preferred answer is 3.
As an environmentalist of more than 30 years experience, I have begun to understand that everything is truly connected.

As a former Brain Scientist and Educator who has studied Body-Psychotherapy, various Natural Therapies and Shamanism,it has become clear to be that the disconnection in our thinking and our models of the world is reflected in most of the problems that we have as a society as well as most environmental problems.
This interconnection is explored in the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium which I first attended earlier in the year and I became so inspired that I trained as a facilitator.
The Symposium explores the link between three of humanity's most critical concerns: environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. Using video clips from some of the world's most respected thinkers, along with inspiring short films, leading edge information and dynamic group interactions, the Symposium allows participants to gain a new insight into the very nature of our time, and the opportunity we have to shape and impact the direction of our world with our everyday choices and action.

The aim of the Symposium is not merely to learn more about the world, but to grapple and come to grips with the very assumptions that underlie the way we ourselves see the world and our place in it, and with what each of us can do - both individually and cooperatively - to move the world in this new direction.

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Answer 8

Answer 3: Or do you need to care equally about both the Environment and Mankind to call yourself an Environmentalist.

This is my official answer it is what Permaculture is all about

Privately and theoretically this may not include all people only the friends of the Planet,but in practice it is hard to separate the people

But if my dog or Hitlers baby was about to be run over by a bus ,i would save my dog first i think .i dont like babies any way.

why must we automatically stick up for humans above everything else what has humanity done to deserve this,is this not a form of racism.

Answer 9

3 with pretty much identical caveats to Byde.

I'd love to tell you Im working on improving that, but on balance, I'm not. I may start showing a bit more love when the GW refugees are on the borders but right now it is hard to have much sympathy for the sections of mankind who seem hell bent on getting us to the apocalypse as fast as their Gas Guzzlers can carry them.

Answer 10

1 - some seem to care more about plant or animal life than human life. I believe we should indeed be good stewards of the planet, but when a choice needs to be made between human or other life...human should win without much discussion.