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>Ecologically Sustainable Communities. > > >WANTED: people who would like to start living fully >ecologically sustainably now, as an alternative to the >ineffective ways of trying to counteract the effects >of the environmental degradation that are being >practiced today. >Please email truehome@lycos.com > > >The case is straightforward: In order to stop and >reverse the destruction and degradation of the Earth >done by humans, humans have to stop destroying the >Earth and what lives on it uncompromisingly. Humans >have to live ecologically sustainably in order to heal >themselves, and the Earth. Although living fully >ecologically sustainably might seem at first absurd >and impossible - it would mean to live without cars >and electricity, just to start the list of things that >one would not have, - at a bit more detailed >inspection the advantages would clearly over-weigh not >having a car, the TV, and the like. If people on this >planet adapted an ecologically sustainable life-style, >no one would have to be hungry, poor, or homeless! As >it is now, it is only a small fraction of people who >live in a relative comfort, have enough to eat, and >have a decent place to live. Also with living truly >ecosustainably there would not have to be any problems >with overpopulation and over-use of resources. People >would live in harmony with their surroundings. > >It is important that living ecosustainably is >practiced in viable communities. Many people, over the >ages, attempted to live ecologically sustainably, but >because they did not go the whole way, and because >they did not have a sufficiently large community to >live with, they ended up practicing a compromise >(caused by having to rely on the mainstream, expansive >culture in, at least, some things), and inevitably >they were re-absorbed back into the mainstream culture >that is basically unsympathetic to anyone attempting >to break away. It is also possible that many people >did succeed to live ecologically sustainably, however >- with no community that would enable the >ecosustainable philosophy to be taught to children >undiluted, the eco-sustainable culture became extinct >with its practitioners. >There is enough knowledge available to learn from >about how to live ecologically sustainably in order to >do it properly. Naturally enough, one could not start >living so straight away, there would be transitional >phases to go through; first enough many people >necessary for forming a sufficiently large community >that would be viable (a community that would be able >to propagate ecologically sustainable culture without >the danger of being negatively influenced by the >expansive, outside culture ) would have to find each >other, land would have to be found, etc. However, with >a clear goal in sight - to live in harmony with the >natural ecological processes of the Earth - it would >be possible to suceed. >It is important that people should start living fully, >truly ecosustainably in the developed countries first, >because those countries set the pace for the rest of >the world, and those countries are also responsible >for the most environmental degradation in the world. >Whatever attempts at fixing the environmental problems >that are underway today could never stop, let alone >repair, the damage that is being done to the Earth, >because of a lack of a clearly defined goal. The goal >of most (if not all) environmentalists of today is not >to stop doing and to repair the environmental damage, >but merely to slow down the damage, whether this is >being realized by them, or not. It is wanting electric >cars instead of eliminating the need for cars. It is >needing solar electric light at night (heavy, >environment damaging industry is needed to produce >panels and batteries), instead of relegating tasks >that require light to daylight time, and leaving the >night for relaxation. >There will have to be a lot of discussions to conduct >before anything serious could be undertaken, but this >is as it should be. > > >URL for this page: >http://truehome.tripod.com/ecosuscom.html
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