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Fig. 21.1 A schema for ethics of participatory processes linking ecology and social action that
emerged from a Future Ideal Retrospective activity. The numbered items up the left are the names
given by the author to clusters of Post-Its, which had been generated by participants responding to
the Future Ideal Retrospective prompt (see Table 21.1 for explanation and Taylor 2011 for links to
the original Post-Its). These clusters were arranged by the author and linked with arrows so as to
convey that, if a lower item happens, that makes it more likely that ones above it happen. The
clusters are then grouped, as indicated by the curves and numbers , into successively more inclusive
clusters to the right . Interpretation of some of the clusters is given in due course in Sect. 21.3 ; the
other clusters are open for readers to give their own meanings to
Conference speakers to Aldo Leopold's land ethic, but also in the reference to
animal rights. A variant of this model is to pay attention to religious views about
nature, highlighting the ones that seem to be pro conservation or stewardship and
downplaying the views that favor exploitation of resources. It is expected of reli-
gions that they promote some ethical framework; moreover, they have the authority
and numbers to make their views count—to mobilize people into action.
A second model is that economics governs people's actions, collectively as
well as individually, so push for an economics based on a different set of values.
Factor in especially the benefi ts of “services” provided by non-human nature—by
ecosystems—rather than take them for granted, placing costs to the environment
outside economic calculations. A hybrid of the two models, but in a form that