Life on this Planet
The object of discussion is life on this planet. The subject is "the way humans produce the things they need and desire". The issues are: 1) declining habitats 2) increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere 3) the inability to supply every human being with what they need to live/thrive 4) humans doing violence to other humans Life on this planet is a "system". It is a pattern of interactions among individual actors each pursuing their genetic and memetic instructions. Every choice has consequences through out the system and at all scales. Issues 1 through 4 result from the way humans produce the things they need and desire. We humans tend to think of the interactions among ourselves, and in particular those interactions that involve the exchange of money, as the most important. Keep in mind that human interactions are not possible without the participation of all the other living things around us. The interactions among the living th