Ecological rulesNavigating the site:
Ecology
Ecology as an inquiry as to who we are and how our surroundings enabled us to arrive and thrive here.
First, ecology is a numerate science in order to understand the relation of populations to their milieu.
The household of humans on the earth
is called nature and 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 these elements and terrains 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 times our technology.
Laws of Thermodynamics: [rules of the game]
- You can't win.
- You are bound to lose.
- You can't get out of the game.
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Mary Austin Gregory Bateson Fritjof Capra Rachel Carson Charles Darwin |
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Anne & Paul Ehrlich Garrett Hardin |
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Aldo Leopold G. Tyler Miller |
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Sandra Steingraber Edward O. Wilson |
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Earth ethics
human household maintenance requires stewardship or caretaker values.
Features of the earth that form the human household are:
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