!Nature's Little Rule Book for Sustainable Human Life on Earth

'''Rule No. 1 - Life on Earth is a web, NOT a pyramid.'''

'''Rule No. 2 - The evolution of life on Earth has NO inherent direction or "purpose" that directs it to develop supposedly "higher" forms of life.'''

'''Rule No. 3 - Life on Earth is infinitely subtle, complex and interrelated.'''

'''Rule No. 4 - Death is an essential part of life on Earth.'''

'''Rule No. 5 - Variety - lots of it - is the spice of life.'''

'''Rule No. 6 - Assuming stable rates of predation and other causes of death, a species' population inevitably increases as its food supply increases.'''

'''Rule No. 7 - You are allowed to compete with other species for food, but not to wage war on them.'''

'''Rule No. 8 - Earth's ecosystems are NOT evolutionarily designed to withstand a species that goes gallivanting all around the world and willy-nilly introducing species from one place to another.'''

'''Rule No. 9 - It's very easy to determine what a sustainable way of human life looks like - just look around you.'''

'''Rule No. 10 - There is much more to life than meets the human eye.'''

From an article by Oneida Kincaid ([[http://www.awok.org|Another Way of Knowing]])\\
Please read the whole article here: [[http://www.awok.org/AnotherWayOfLiving/KincaidNaturesLittleRuleBook|Nature's Little Rule Book]]
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