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It makes a great deal of difference to the long-term sustainability and integrity of a 
civilization or community - - - when decisions are made by people regarding what kinds
of behavior are -to-properly-be:

Honored		Admired		Rewarded	Respected	Taught		Encouraged

Modeled		Suggested	Tolerated	Permitted	Wallowed	Winked-At

Discouraged	Criticized	Penalized	Fined		Obstructed	Prevented

Criminalized	Shunned		Ostracized	Banished	Imprisoned	Tabooed

The following questions can play important roles in deciding the extent to which making-kind-
of decision contributes to the long-term-sustainability of a civilization:

To what extend are each of the following indicators-of-the-health-and-integrity of a 
civilization/community - - - augmented and/or-mitigated by making-each kind-of-decision:
giving-due-consideration to the overall-consequences for-all-humans-long-term?

1. Open-and-Honest-Dialogue about how-well the-basic-real-needs of various identifiable-groups-
of-people are being-met - - - and about changes in how-well such needs are being met more-or-less
frequently.  Is power-and-wealth being concentrated at the expense of the most vulnerable?

2. The levels of mutual: trust, animosity, respect, admiration, contentiousness, understanding
- - - between/among the various identifiable-groups-of-people - - - and about the changes 
occurring in those levels - - - as years pass?

3. The rates-of-exhaustion of essential-material-resources within God's Astronomically-Tiny-
Space-Ship-Earth - - - Essentially Isolated as it is from all Extra-Terrestrial and Practicably-
Usable Essential-Pure-Material-Resources: Fossil-Fuels such as Oil, Natural-Gas, and coal; 
Nuclear-Fuels; Minerals, Building-Materials, etc.

4. The changing accessibility of practicably-useful-ENDURING-energy-resources - - - to empower 
the Exponentially-Growing levels of activities of all members of the crew of God's Astronomically-
Tiny-and-Isolated Space-Ship-Earth - - - Direct-Sunshine, Stored-Sunshine, Water-Power, Warm-
Ocean-Currents, Tides, Geo-Thermal, etc.  What are the projected demands and availabilities?

5. The changing levels-in-livability of the various parts of God's Astronomically-Tiny-Isolated-
Space-Ship-Earth - - - due to Global-Climate-Changes-Triggered-by-Humans, due to natural Global-
Climate-Changes in Pollutions of air, water, soils, plants, animals, ice, etc.  See the extensive 
writings of Lester Brown leading up to his writing of "PLAN B4.0 published in 2009.