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.