Amendment: Chapter 3, paragraph 1

Proposed Amendment to Chapter 3: Ecological Sustainability, Introduction, Paragraph 1

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The human community is an element of the Earth community, not the other way around. All human endeavors are situated within the dynamics of the biosphere. If we wish to have sustainable institutions and enterprises, they must fit well with the processes of the Earth.

All human endeavors are limited by our planet’s biospehere. For human life to be sustainable it must be in harmony with these limitations.



The ideology of industrialism in both capitalist and communist countries, insists that modern society lives on top of nature and should rightly use and despoil the rest of the natural world as we desire – because any loss of the ecosystems is merely an “externality” in economic thought and because any problems can be addressed later by a technological fix. We are now living through the painful consequences of that arrogant, ignorant perspective. Many of our children suffer from accumulations of mercury and other toxins in their neurological systems, environmentally related cancer is on the rise, and our air and water are increasingly polluted. Meanwhile, Our ecosystems are being compromised by the spreading presence of genetically engineered organisms, disrupting the populations of plants and animals the world over.