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Consumption
Orientation

 

Sustainability
Orientation

Resource

Orientation

Straight line consumption; earth is a “bottomless pit”

 

Making things last; earth is a “one-time" endowment

Social

Orientation

Self/clan

Status

Entitlement

Short-term advantage

 

Community

Common ground

Relationship

Long-term benefit

Time

Focus

Linear

Speed

Predictability/stability

Unfolding

Pace

Change/evolution

 

Material

Orientation

Consuming and accumulating

 

Conserving and sharing

Psychological

Realities

Conformity

Insecurity

Present-oriented

Transition

Community

Future-oriented

 

Evolutionary

Outlook

Human-centered

Ownership/stewardship

Earth-oriented

Differentiation/

pluralism

Earth citizenship

 

Orientation to

the World

Pursuit of novelty

Appreciation

Outcome

Focus

Control

Opportunity

Ralph Copleman, 1999, 2002

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