Social Ecology

As Bookchin wrote "economic, ethnic, and gender conflicts are at the core of the world's most serious ecological issues." All of these issues could be addressed when people begin to respect life in a deeper manner. At a basic biological level we are all the same and we thrive with nature not at the expense of it. Humans should not consider oil to be more valuable than the preservation of wilderness and human and non human life. Today Americans, particularly corporate America, value the resources and material objects that give them wealth and display their hierarchy at the cost of many other individuals' wealfare. By the way that we use our technology we are competing amongst each other in a very immoral way. We may be taking advantage of the "survival of the fittest" and forcing others to be inferior through illegitimate means. People could contribute to the world more positively if they were treated fairly. Oil, timber, minerals, land, and water are all resources that should be used is a conscious and stabilizing manner because of the way they form such specific cycles. We can not set a value on our society of harvested raw materials being worth more than the natural wealth of the ecosystem that we are apart of; no matter how pressing we believe our social issues to be.