Conserving Our Guilt The fallacy of composition
The things we want add up to the things we don’t want.The Fallacy of Composition States:
By setting aside protected land, we say in effect, “It’s ok to be wasteful elsewhere.”
•365 acres/hour – the rate of urban sprawl
•30,000 ads – seen before 1st grade
•Consumerism – the new citizenship
•To get what you want – buy something
•World’s 7th largest economy – California
•Largest manmade structure – NY Landfill
•Humans exploit what they value and defend what they love.
The problem isn’t what we do. It’s how we live.
• Perspective: How do we justify our actions?
• The problem with conspicuous good citizenship.
• Identity: Who are we in this biosphere?
Project Impact
Not conservation but lifestyle changes
based on proper view.
Project Outcomes
• Critical Thinkerswithhold judgment
• Difference Makersarticulate issues
• Change Catalystsvisionize others
by Dallas McPheetersInstructional Tech Liaison
Based on William Ashworth’s “The Left Hand of Eden: Meditations on Nature and Human Nature,” (1999), Oregon
State University Press in Corvallis.& Peter Forbes’ “The Great Remembering,” (2001), Chelsea
Green Publishing, VT.
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