EcoSuperior Environmental Programs

Life, Money & Illusion: Living On Earth As If We Want To Stay

By: Mike Nickerson

Well-being can be sustained when activities:

1. use materials in continuous cycles;
2. use continuously reliable sources of energy
3. come mainly from the qualities of being human (e.g. creativity, communication, movement, appreciation, and spiritual and intellectual development).

Long-term well-being is dimished when activities:

4. require continual inputs of non-renewable resources;
5. use renewable resources faster than their rate of renewal;
6. cause cumulative degradation of the environment;
7. require resources in quantities that undermine other people's well-being;
8. lead to extinction of other life forms.