Some basic ecological principles:
Limits:
* Earth's life support systems are adaptable but
there are limits.
* Populations are healthlist if kept within an
upper and lower limit.
* Renewable resources can be sustainable if usage
is limited to natural supply rates.
* Non-renewable resources can be sustainable if
recycled and we constantly substitued more abundant
resources.
* Pollution can be generated at the rate it can be
degraded by the enviornment or collected for recycling.
Change:
*When we alter nature to meet our interests, we should
choose the method that does the least possible harm to
present eco-systems.
*The environment is constantly changing and so are we. This
awareness has a impact on how we protect ecosystems.
We need to be cautious and monitor rates of change.
*In nature, we can never do just one thing; everything we do
creates effects that are often unpredictable.
Daily decisions:
*The best way to protect life on earth is to protect
whole ecosystems.
*We can learn a lot about how nature works, but nature is a
complex moving target that our knowledge will always be
incomplete.
*Everything is connected. All large events are
made up of many small events. Our every act has
an impact.
Attitude check:
*The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth
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