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The Role of Citizenship Responsibility for Environment within Individualized Society
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Environmental responsibility is among the most urgent societal challenges of our times. In the following article I discuss the problematic nature of civic responsibility adequately dealing with environmental issues. I posed the questions: ‘Can individual citizens bear responsibility for global environmental problems?’ ‘Should everyone be held responsible for environmental degradation?’ This chapter aims to clarify the meaning of the term individualization of environmental responsibility, and presents opposing approaches to the process of privatization of environmental responsibility. I incline to the opinion that that activities such as green consumerism, passive membership of environmental groups, and domestic recycling cannot be taken as the sole way of responsible behaviour. From the literature, I deduce that environmental responsibility is a form of virtue, and can be developed only if certain prerequisites are fulfilled. This chapter describes the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to responsibility understanding, while presenting ideas on how individual civic responsibility relates to individualization process. |
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