1. There is a lack of profound and comprehensive curiosity about ecology even among many current/conventional so-called biologists and naturalists. The current focus of STEAM is through a lens of the human economy and of having dynamic homeostatic symbioses (“nature”) bow to the inappropriate technology, engineering, and entrepreneurship of the Chosen Ones rather than living toward a goal of livelihoods which are implemented wisely, simply, smally, slowly, steadfastly, sharingly, and sustainably in concert with Nature’s economy.
(A recent trigger of these thoughts are relatives and friends commenting on their perception of lack of: “neatness” and weeding and brush control, and trim and order in some yards, on particular farms & ranches, and in homes. Personally, I think I myself, who am not very ordered, am too concerned with clutter and establishing and having a certain order. We do need to always be cognizant of and cogitate on the Second Law of Thermodynamics and recognize that order in one system creates disorder in another. http://www.paulpeaceparables.com/2015/03/23/the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-it-is-in-many-ways-the-most-important-and-should-be-the-first/ )
2. We are ignoring the limits of Earth and the natural resource base. Neoliberal capitalism; worship of action for action’s sake, growth, and development and MANagement of “nature” and associated human actions which are employing inappropriate technology, engineering, and entrepreneurship are destroying life-yielding top soil and clean air, quality water, photosynthesizers and biodiversity, and resulting in too much embodied human appropriated net productivity (i.e., a very precarious imbalance).
(I constantly hear too much talk of: purchase of a new monstrosity, i.e., pickup or car, or a bigger house; new jobs which aren’t sustainable livelihoods; and development of Land or Nature.)
3. We are not de facto living and abiding by a “golden rule”. We preach and pray and hope, and take actions with reckless abandonment which are supposedly through an ethic of reciprocity (a holistic and deep living of the Golden Rule) but do this with extremely little real effort at thorough appraisal of the status quo, and development of: a grand plan, strategy and tactics, real actions, and systems of evaluation of the results of those actions toward a goal of an ethic of reciprocity which includes the whole of dynamic homeostatic symbioses (“nature”) and of all of Eaarth.
(I am tired of hearing the words: “Let’s pray.”, “We simply have to have hope!”, “We just have to believe in Jesus.”, “It is the hands of God.”, “THE Bible/Scripture says: … .” and “War, killings, terror, and exploitation, poverty and disparity are inevitable. It is the nature and reality of man.”)
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