The Fundamental Laws of Human Ecology 1. We're all in it together. Everyhting is connected to everything else. You can't do just one thing. 2. The Earth and its resources are finite. or You can't get something for nothing. 3. As energy and other resources are used, there is an overall decrease in the amount of usefulness. (Second Law of Thermodynamics> 4. Everything must go somewhere-there is now away. 5. Up to a point, ther bigger the bettter; behond that point, the bidder the worse. or To everything there is an optimum size. 6. Everything is boecoming something else. 7. In most cases, the greater the diversity of a system, the greater its stability. 8. Nature frequently but not always "knows" best. Note: People use antibiotics to counter nature. i'm not sure i agree with this one :) 9. We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us. - Winston Churchhill 10. As human beings, one of our inalienable rights is the right to live in a clean environment. 11. Our environment does not belong to us alone. It was used by our forefathers, passed on to us, and we are charged with the responsibility of passing it undamaged to all future generations. 12. All persons must be held responsible for their own pollution. 13. All persons are created with an equal right to live in dignity and peace and to work out a meaningful existence. Everyone is entitled to a fair share of the world's resources-provided one is carrying one's onw share of the resposibilities for maintaining an orderly world. 14. Comfortable living, in harmony with nature, should be each society's goal. 15. Our dependence on tenchnology is, today, so strong and widespread, that we are compelled to use technology as a means for getting out of our environmental delemma. Corollary: Good science proceeds into the unknown with caution and in ignorance refrains 16. No national purpose however urgent, no plitical or economic necessity however pressing can possibly justify the risk of bringiong all human history to an end.  ...................... ... ...-....1200 N81N ...................... ... ...-....1200 N8