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%INCREMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY POSSIBLE+990427
%VISION DESIRE RESPECT COHERENCE TECHNICAL PROBLEM+990427
%DILEMMA FULFILLMENT NET COMMUNAL PERSONAL GOOD+990427
%COLLUSION BLOCKAGE TRADITION VESTED INTEREST LAWS+990427
%BALANCED SYSTEM COMPLEMENTARY VALUES IDEALS EVILS+990427
%GARBAGE ENTROPY HEAT ENERGY RESOURCES MINERALS+990427
%POPULATION EXPLOSION SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS RULES 990427
Dealing responsibly with increasing human impacts
upon the environment of finite space-ship Earth entails
at least the following:
1. Recognizing, naming, describing and addressing
the long-term consequences of unrestrained population
explosion within space-ship Earth, its finite space, and
finite supplies of diverse resources.
2. Recognizing, naming, describing and addressing
patterns of visions, desires, advertising, respect,
ideals and values which engender unsustainable
expectations and demands upon finite resources.
3. Efforts to affirm in balanced ways the
importance of personal and communal integrity; addressing
both non-technical dilemmas and technical problems;
mitigating exclusivity/extremism, and balancing
affirmations of each positive value/ideal with
affirmations of other complementary values/ideals.
4. Transcending blockages of healthy change where
the blockages are due to: traditions, vested interests,
old infrastructures, old laws, and diverse collusive
games of mutual self deception.
5. Focusing upon GETTING TO YES as a style in
conflict resolution --- rather than achieving the false
appearance of conflict resolution through: dominance,
coercion, violence, and other forms of addictive
behaviors.
6. Focusing upon realistic incremental changes and
possibilities --- rather than upon unrealistic dreams of
sudden utopian transformations of extreme forms.
7. Being realistic about the levels of
sophistication and technological complexity which can be
sustained with limited resources in space-ship Earth ---
in competition with other demands being made upon those
limited resources within space-ship Earth.
8. Dealing openly and honestly with the
technological instabilities which may be entailed in
technological solutions to real problems, and to dilemmas
which are treated as technical problems; e.g., electrical
and political power-grid instabilities, pollution feed-
back due to chemical solutions used, traffic costs of
separating homes from work-places, heightened personal
and/or communal insecurity due to vulnerable technologies
--- and due to technologies which heighten people's
levels of vulnerability.
9. Acknowledging that there are many dilemmas which
cannot be resolved through the use of any form(s) of
technology or systematic procedures --- and dealing with
those dilemmas in ways which are appropriate to the
reasons they are dilemmas rather than technical problems.
10. Seeking to trace conflicts between people(s) and
groups of people to the underlying unresolved conflicts
between the: ideals, values, principles, beliefs,
assumptions, attitudes, myths, hopes and aspirations ---
which the people(s) embody.
11. Learning how to deal justly with communal versus
individual costs/benefits in distributing technologies
and technologies' benefits/costs; e.g., goods, services
and the dumping of garbage/entropy in various places
within space-ship Earth.
12. Finding ways of helpfully dramatizing the
entropy costs of alternative ways of promoting human
welfare, meaning, fulfillment, and dynamic stability.
Here "entropy" may point to both entropy as defined by
physicists; and to the chaos, disorder, contentions,
disputations, and conflicts which so often accompany
political decisions made from the "top down".
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