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The Fundamental Laws of Human Ecology
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1. We're all in it together. Everyhting is connected to everything else.
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You can't do just one thing. <Law of Interrelatedness>
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2. The Earth and its resources are finite. or You can't get something for
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nothing. <Law of Conservation of Energy>
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3. As energy and other resources are used, there is an overall decrease in
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the amount of usefulness. (Second Law of Thermodynamics>
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4. Everything must go somewhere-there is now away. <Law of Conservation of
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Matter>
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5. Up to a point, ther bigger the bettter; behond that point, the bidder
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the worse. or To everything there is an optimum size. <Brontosaurus
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Principle>
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6. Everything is boecoming something else. <Law of Continuous Creation>
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7. In most cases, the greater the diversity of a system, the greater its
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stability. <The Diversity Principle>
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8. Nature frequently but not always "knows" best. Note: People use
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antibiotics to counter nature. <Nature knows best>
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i'm not sure i agree with this one :)
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9. We shape our buildings <environment> and afterwards our buildings
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<environment> shape us. - Winston Churchhill <Your Environment is You>
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10. As human beings, one of our inalienable rights is the right to live in
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a clean environment. <The Environmental Bill of Rights>
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11. Our environment does not belong to us alone. It was used by our
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forefathers, passed on to us, and we are charged with the responsibility of
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passing it undamaged to all future generations. <the Rights of the Unborn>
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12. All persons must be held responsible for their own pollution. <the
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Responsibility of the Born>
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13. All persons are created with an equal right to live in dignity and
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peace and to work out a meaningful existence. Everyone is entitled to a
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fair share of the world's resources-provided one is carrying one's onw
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share of the resposibilities for maintaining an orderly world. <The Law of
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Equtiy>
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14. Comfortable living, in harmony with nature, should be each society's
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goal. <the Goal of Society>
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15. Our dependence on tenchnology is, today, so strong and widespread, that
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we are compelled to use technology as a means for getting out of our
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environmental delemma. <Technology-Part of the Problem, Part of the
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Solution>
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Corollary: Good science proceeds into the unknown with caution and in
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ignorance refrains
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16. No national purpose however urgent, no plitical or economic necessity
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however pressing can possibly justify the risk of bringiong all human
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history to an end. <Give Earth a Chance>
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