I'm an environmentalist with a viewpoint that is based on the need for conservation and sustainability. One of my greatest hopes (too bad I won't live to see it) is that humanity can continue surviving for may more thousand of years. I don't know why I care about the fate of humankind after I am dead, but I think that it has something to do with something innate deep in my genetic make-up; DNA's own "desire" for survival. Why else would DNA exist except to reproduce itself and provide a way for organisms to adapt to their environment? Human beings are such unique animals in that they have the ability to consciously evolve. Our large, problem-solving brains give us this capacity. We discovered evolution and have become adept at describing its laws. We know about sustainability and how it can preserve not only our lives but those of our descendants and all of humankind. We have also become actually pretty capable at understanding how our economic systems work. One of the roles of government, therefore should be to try to find a way to use our knowledge evolution and ecology to make sustainability economically beneficial. The current corporate culture of greed has made the conditions for people at the bottom of the economic scale unlivable.
Environmentality, or as I think of it, ecogovernmetality, can be described as the way in which environmental regulations apply to sustainable ecological practices. Sustainable policy discussions are so important when developing new technologies. I think that it is logical to consider future generations when government decisions are made. How will these laws benefit our children, our children's children and so on? Or how will new eco-laws harm our descendants?
It's refreshing to see that there is still some hope left in the world for our species. I have been hearing so many gloom and doom scenarios lately that I even started loosing hope. But I agree that we should be able to survive because we have the capabilities to do amazing things which should include figuring out how to sustain our way of life. Maybe not sustain our current way of life, but a way of life that is better for everything in this world. I also have faith in us, I want our species to survive, but we have some work to do first
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