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We believe that the conservation of human and environmental health is the key to a more just and peaceful world. We believe that human and environmental health are deeply intertwined, as overtly evidenced by human scientific knowledge. We believe that human and environmental health should take priority over economic growth. We believe that economic growth should exist only in the manner and to the extent to which it serves human and environmental health. We place human health into four categories of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, and we define environmental health as the preservation and active renovation of the natural environment. We believe that the resources and energy of humanity should be redistributed until human needs have been met equally and adequately for all human beings, and we further believe that any remaining human resources and energy after human need is thus met, should be diverted from activities that detract from human and environmental health, and reinvested into activities that further serve to optimize human and environmental health. When we say "human need", we explicitly define and differentiate this from "human greed". We define human greed as any human energies, resources and activities that detract from adequate human and environmental health. When we say human greed, we are overtly and especially referring to business corporate greed, in our time. Any human activity that extends beyond human need and into the realm of human greed we believe to be a violation of all human rights. A healthy environment is a human right. Pollution and destruction of the environment is a violation of human rights.
We believe that humanity and the environment are one. We believe in the reciprocity between homo sapiens and the natural environment. We believe that what humanity perpetrates upon nature it perpetrates upon itself. We are all in this together, every human, animal and plant. Our survival is deeply intertwined.
We define human need as equal and adequate access to the followig for all human beings:
Physical needs
Clean air as provided by Earth's vegetation in a raw unpolluted, and unprocessed form.
Clean water as provided by Earth's fresh water resources in a raw, unpolluted, unprocessed form. We believe in the minimal use of processing agents to purify water that would otherwise be detrimental to human health in its natural state.
Clean food as provided by the earth, available to each human being in a raw, natural, unprocessed or minimally processed state, unstripped of the thousands of nutrients upon which the human body was designed to function at optimal level, nutrients which to this day science is still struggling to identify and learn about.
Adequate shelter for protection from the elements, and adequate waste sanitation in all communities.
Mental, emotional and spiritual needs
The security of basic human rights as agreed upon by the United Nations.
The protection and cultivation of the strength of community. We believe that one's local human and natural environment is the setting in which human mental, emotional and spiritual fulfillment is built.
The protection and cultivation of all presently surviving distinct and separate human cultures and languages. We believe that the cultural homogenization of humanity is an assault upon the human spirit. We believe that we doom ourselves to attempt to gather all of our eggs into one cultural basket. This is equivalent to the lobotomy of the right side of the human brain. This is equivalent to mental, emotion and spiritual suicide.
Adequate and equal access of all human beings to basic education including, reading, writing, arithmetic and basic respect for the self, others, and the environment.
We believe in the need for a change in fundamental aspirations, values, and beliefs of human society. To this end we believe that the following immediate changes need to be made in government policies and human activities of all countries on planet Earth:
We believe that economic growth is a means to an end, not the end goal, and economic growth must be directed in the course that best serves human and environmental health. The current focus on international trade and material innovation needs to be scaled down to a level that does not cross the line into the realm of "human greed" as defined, and the world's local economies need to regain priority and strive toward EACH fulfilling its OWN "human need" as defined FIRST, to the best of its ability, BEFORE expanding its economic horizons. The radius of a local economy is not set in stone. A local economy is first and foremost defined from its centerpoint. Downtown, Anytown, Any Country. Each town is a local economy. In a large city, each neighborhood is a local economy. Scaling down international trade does not mean we reject the market system, which works efficiently. It works only too efficiently, and we are committing suicide by it. This means that we significancly clamp down on international trade, and never allow it to be governed by the same level of cold short-sighted greed and cold short-sighted demand for efficiency ever again. Instead, the governing principles of international trade or any kind of trade at all, from this point forward, need to become a focus on human and environmental health. For what reason to develop our economies at all, if it leads us to human suffering and environmental calamities? We want to trade off greed and short-term economic efficiency for long term sustainability, health and sanity. The world we are living in today is not the world that its inhabitants want. It is a world that was overtaken by a greedy few who do not speak for the interest of the many. The people of planet Earth want change. What we have in our world today is not progress. It is very sad only.
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