“What we face now is an escalating clash between two opposing paradigms: the old industrial paradigm of centralised, hierarchical fossil fuel dependency with all its concomitant economic and environmental ramifications; and a new paradigm of clean, equitably-distributed, people-owned energy, with greater economic and environmental equity. […] All these mega-trends illustrate the intrinsic value of ethical action, as opposed to behaviours focused on self-centred endless material production and consumption. As Ive argued elsewhere, the dysfunctional trajectory of todays global capitalism – which at worst could lead to an uninhabitable planet – demonstrates that the reductionist values of this system are, objectively, not working. In contrast, ethical action which recognises our interconnection with the web of life, and our embeddedness in nature, appears to have genuine, objective, evolutionary utility in species survival.”
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:20:24 +0000
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