What is intrinsic value?

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What is intrinsic value?

1. To have worth itself, independent of relations to
   other things.
2. Seems something as being truly important for its
   own sake, respect of essence.
3. The worth of any given thing, person, animal,
   etc. that comes through the mere existence of
   that entity.
4. Possessing worth independent of that interpreted
   or projected by an individual (worth in and of
   itself).
5. The worth an object/being has that is inherent to
   its being (not what it can be used for).
6. The idea that something has inherent worth simply
   because it exists.
7. Existence in and of itself independent of the
   existence of others.
8. Giving creatures in nature more worth based on
   what type of creature they are.
9. How much something is worth to itself.
10. The importance and worth of an item, animal,
    person, plant, etc. independent of just what it
    can provide instrumentally.

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What is economism?

1. Dealing with the money and property of a given
   society.
2. A framework of measuring costs and benefits.
3. The belief that things should be valued based on
   the production they can provide.
4. Making decisions based on a cost-benefit
   analysisthat is, making decisions that produce
   the lowest monetary cost.
5. The valuation of nature in terms of the monetary
   value the things in nature have to offer to those
   who use them.
6. A object/beings worth derives from what it can
   contribute to society and can be measured with a
   dollar amount.
7. A perspective in which everything is evaluated
   based on monetary value.
8. The notion that things can be viewed or given
   worth relative to their monetary value.
9. Approach to valuing goods, services, and
   resources, as aspects to be exploited and turned
   to profit.
10. Looking at something as the benefit you can
    derive from it.

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Evangelicals Climate Change
Evangelicalism 18th Century England, John Wesley
and Methodism Emphasize Personal conversion
(being born again) High regard for biblical
authority Saving power of death resurrection
of Jesus Sharing the Gospel (evangelization)
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Evangelicals Climate Change

• Evangelical Climate Change Denial
• Key Ideas
• Emphasize Gods sovereignty in solving
  environmental and other problems
• Apocalyptic focus on eschatology, the End Times
• Sense of being a persecuted minority, who know
  the real Truth that is not recognized by the
  world
• Suspicion of science and its authority, emphasis
  on scientific uncertainly, climate change as
  theory
• suspicion of nature worship, deification of
  nature, New Age religion, environmentalism as an
  alternate belief system, the religion of global
  warming

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Evangelicals Climate Change

• Evangelical Climate-Change Denial
• Key Ideas, cont.
• Focus on personal morality (esp. sexual),
  salvation and saving of souls, not social justice
  or saving creation
• Related focus on individualism, individual
  rights, liberty, private property, free
  enterprise, which are identified as the essential
  American values
• Climate change advocates seen as anti-capitalist,
  anti-American
• Advocate wise use stewardship for human beings,
  improving the environment, gardens better than
  wilderness
• Protecting economic prosperity trumps protecting
  environment
• Stress economic impacts of responding to climate
  change,

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Evangelicals Climate Change
Evangelical Climate Change Denial Cornwall
Alliance (formerly the Interfaith Council on
Environmental Stewardship, ICES) Acton Institute
for the Study of Religion and Liberty Key
spokesperson E. Calvin Beisner Where Garden
Meets Wilderness Evangelical Entry into the
Environmental Debate (1997) The Cornwall
Declaration on Environmental Stewardship (Cornwall
Alliance, 2000) (Ethics Religious Liberty
Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention,
2012)
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Evangelicals Climate Change

• Green Evangelicals Climate Care
• Key Ideas
• Social justice an important aspect of biblical
  teachings
• Stewardship/dominion on the model of Christ as
  servant
• Continuity between present material existence and
  kingdom of God
• Reliance on testimony of evangelical scientists
  to overcome suspicion of science
• Stress on environmental consequences for human
  beings of global warming, especially impact on
  the poor

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Evangelicals Climate Change
Green Evangelicals Creation Care Evangelical
Environmental Network (EEN) Evangelical Climate
Initiative (ECI) Key spokesperson Rick
Warren best-selling author of The Purpose-Driven
Life What would Jesus Drive? (EEN, 2003) Climate
Change An Evangelical Call to Action (2006)
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The Great Climate Change Debate

• Are the moral and scientific imperatives of
  climate change such that we ought to make
  sacrifices to address them?
• If sacrifices should be made, who is responsible
  for making them, and why?  If no sacrifices
  should be made, what should our response to
  climate change be?