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Second, is the personal recognition that individual humans live in interaction with their Natural surroundings and that they should contextualize such interactions personally.

Third, requires a sense of recent history of their local environment. This creates a personal baseline by which an individual might assess how they have been affected by climate change.

Fourth, and last is for the agent who has just assessed how they have been affected to examine various sustainability policy proposals and gather enough information so that they can decide which course they will endorse and then work vigorously for enactment of those policy proposals.

Just as when we focused upon the human community it was necessary to go beyond to the extended human community, so also it is the case with the eco-community. The extended eco-community worldview imperative is:

Each agent must educate themself about the world’s biomes: freshwater, saltwater, arid regions, forests, prairies and grasslands, tundra, and artic regions. This education should be ongoing and should include how the relative stability and Natural sustainability is faring at various points in time. This knowledge will entail a factual valuing that also leads to an aesthetic valuing. Since all people seek to protect what they value,²⁶ this extended community membership will ground a duty to protect the global biomes according to what is aspirationally possible.