Virtude de prisioneiros III

...Yet the conclusion that seems warranted is that there is no instinctive environmental ethic in our species - no innate tendency to develop and teach restrained practice. Environmental ethics are therefore to be taught in spite of human nature, not in concert with it. They do not come naturally. We all knew that anyway, did we not? Yet we persist in hoping that we´ll find an ecological noble savage somewhere inside our brest to call out with the right chants and incantations. He´s not there. As Bobbi Low and Joel Heinen put it, "Conservation philosophies relying on generalized and diffuse group beneficts are probably doomed to failure, in the absence of individual or kinship benefits to conservation management. We would be delighted to be wrong, but suspect we are not"....

in The Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley