ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses worldview and ethics, and how we cannot heal our world without transforming these. The key problem is that Western society is dominated by anthropocentrism, amounting to a worldview of human supremacy that allocates no intrinsic value to nature. Anthropocentrism is deeply entrenched in society, government and academia. The most dominant worldview today is Western society’s anthropocentric modernism, now globalised around the world. However, worldview and ethics are actually central, for if society does not question and address these, then it simply will not change. The lenses are formed by a person’s principles, knowledge and experiences, and by the values of the surrounding society. Crist argues that human supremacy has become so entrenched in society that the wondrous diversity of life is reduced down to just ‘resources’ or ‘natural capital’. Time now for Western society to remove the blinkers and rediscover the intrinsic value of the rest of nature in order to heal the world.
