Environmental Problems, Individual and Social Values; A Strange Dilemma

Authors : Fulya Öztaş, Haydar Öztaş

Pages : 67-75

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Publication Date : 2024-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Rapid population growth, the need for economic development, insatiable human needs and the increasing diversification of these needs are seen as the main sources of emerging environmental problems. It is known that social values make significant contributions to the understanding and solution of individual and social environmental problems, and that consumer behavior and environmental policies aimed at protecting the environment largely arise from individual behaviors, and that the attitudes and behaviors of individuals and societies towards the environment are closely related to their traditional values. This study aims to create an environmental policy based on renewable energies that is reliable, meaningful in terms of environmental values, economically sustainable, ensuring the development and continuation of humanity and other living things, effective and capable of using as much energy as needed, for a sustainable environmental policy that can continue in future generations. and supports the view that its sustainability is essential. It is possible to argue that the essence of all environmental problems lies in the unwillingness of individuals and societies to accept a more modest lifestyle. For this reason, it is possible to say that educators should take responsibility for the environmental behavior of individuals and societies, and that environmentally sensitive consumer characteristics, political values and all environmental behaviors should be the main element of any education to be given.
Keywords : Environmental pronlems, individuals & sociaties, ecological balance