Ecological rulesNavigating the site:
Ecology
Ecology as an inquiry as to who we are and how we arived here.
The household of humans on the earth has rules:
Topographical rules: [laws of place]
- nourish the land or perish.
- changes in altitude are like changes in latitude.
- water inheres in the land, together they are inseparable.
Rules of ecology: [laws of process]
- You can never do merely one thing.
- Everything has to go somewhere.
- Our impact is related to our affluence times our numbers.
Laws of Thermodynamics: [rules of the game]
- You can't win.
- You are bound to lose.
- You can't get out of the game.
Earth ethics
human household maintenance requires stewardship or caretaker values.
Features of the earth that form the human household are:
Water, Energy, Air, Land or
