Save the Earth = End the Human Race (Part 3)

Eventually of course, this form of thinking took hold.

The rational way of manipulating the world for human needs became THE way of looking at and interacting with the world. This rationality worked its way into modern human consciousness at a subliminal level, almost all human action is shaped by it. All of us act and think without the need to question this rationality at work.

Work hard for that promotion, study hard for that scholarship, train hard to get those rock hard abdominals, take this path because it's the shortest path to the park, buy this car because it's the most affordable, make sure my company is in the blue by the third month...the list of human thought and actions that are dictated by this rationality goes on.

And this rationality is at the heart of the unconscious exploitation of the natural world by human activity. This rationality does not include considerations for the preservation of our natural world. Rationality=maximising means for maximised ends. Where is the balance between human action and environmental well-being?

It is nonsense to save the environment by eliminating all human life. It is nonsense to think that a workable solution can be achieved within ten or twenty years. Change might only be obvious in fifty to a hundred years, after a few generations of sensitive but sustained implementation of change.

What then is this change to be like? What can we change?

This change will need to address two problems talked about so far:
1. The ingrained and systematic nature of the exploitation of the natural world
2. The ingrained and systematic rationality in almost all human action, therefore excluding the unconscious and conscious need for environmental preservation and protection.