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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI

Practice responsible stewardship of nature

Protect land, water, air, habitats, and future generations.

Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions

A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
Religious systems
23/52

44.2%

Nonreligious systems
19/41

46.3%

Represented systems
42/93

45.2%

Specific anchors*
2/42

4.8%

*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.

Corpus definition

Protect land, water, air, habitats, and future generations.

This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.

Preserved calculation difference

The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.

All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93

Overall %: source 44.7 · recomputed 45.1613

Evidence, mapping by mapping

42 selected mappings

World Heritage Stewardship Ethics · Official framework-level anchor

Practice responsible stewardship of nature · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage

Open original source ↗ www.unesco.org

Official framework-level anchor · International cultural and environmental ethics

Framework-level mapping: verify the exact article, context, legal or ethical status, and scope before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 5858. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

World Organisation for Animal Health Ethics · Official framework-level anchor

Practice responsible stewardship of nature · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

WOAH animal-welfare standards and Five Freedoms

Open original source ↗ www.woah.org

Official framework-level anchor · International animal-welfare ethics

Framework-level mapping: verify exact article, section, context, and scope before formal quotation.

Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 5859. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

History and geography: source limits

This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.

Explore connections in the same category

Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.

M178 · Animals, Environment, Health and Technology

Preserve truthful digital records

Maintain reliable evidence and audit trails.

50 / 93 systems mapped · 53.8%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M166 · Animals, Environment, Health and Technology

Consider future generations

Evaluate long-term consequences for people not yet born.

37 / 93 systems mapped · 39.8%
Workbook confidence: Developing
M170 · Animals, Environment, Health and Technology

Use technology for human flourishing

Develop technology for dignity, justice, safety, and shared benefit.

47 / 93 systems mapped · 50.5%
Workbook confidence: Developing
Unmodified source statistics
Primary Rank - Religious146
Overall Rank57
Nonreligious Rank7
Religious Frequency Tier17
Religions Sharing23
Religious Systems52
Religious %44.2
Nonreligious Groups Sharing19
Nonreligious Groups41
Nonreligious %46.3
All Systems Sharing42
All Systems94
Overall %44.7
Direct Official Anchors2
Direct Evidence %4.8
Cross-Sphere Balance Index95.5
Religious Adoption Gap-2.1

Moderately shared across both spheres

Provenance: Universal Moral Code — Statistical Atlas, Edition XXI. Names, definitions and source anchors are preserved verbatim. This atlas describes its corpus, not all beliefs or practices worldwide.