There Are No Separate Systems. The World

The First Commandment Of Economics Is: Grow. Grow Forever. Companies Get Bigger. National Economies Need To Swell By A Certain Percent Each Year. People Should Want More, Make More, Earn More, Spend More - Ever More. The First Commandment Of The Earth Is: Enough. Just So Much And No More. Just So Much Soil. Just So Much Water. Just So Much Sunshine. Everything Born Of The Earth Grows To Its Appropriate Size And Then Stops.

The Sustainability Revolution Will Be Organic. It Will Arise From The Visions, Insights, Experiments And Actions Of Billions Of People. The Burden Of Making It Happen Is Not On The Shoulders Of Any One Person Or Group. No One Will Get The Credit, But Everyone Can Contribute.

Biodiversity Can't Be Maintained By Protecting A Few Species In A Zoo, Or By Preserving Greenbelts Or National Parks. To Function Properly, Nature Needs More Room Than That. It Can Maintain Itself, However, Without Human Expense, Without Zookeepers, Park Rangers, Foresters Or Gene Banks. All It Needs Is To Be Left Alone.

I Call The Transformed World Toward Which We Can Move ‘sustainable,’ By Which I Mean A Great Deal More Than A World That Merely Sustains Itself Unchanged. I Mean A World That Evolves, As Life On Earth Has Evolved For Three Billion Years, Toward Ever Greater Diversity, Elegance, Beauty, Self-awareness, Interrelationship, And Spiritual Realization.

The European Nations Take Climate Change Very Seriously.