Karl, i could not agree more with your post. Do you have any more
information regarding Mr Boyes, ie-- his full Hypothesis etc.
Thanks in advance for anything you may provide.
Regards.
Robert.
From: Karl S North <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: [CrashList] Anthropocentrism vs Biocentrism
>Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 20:02:45 -0400
>
>If it is in the nature of capitalism to end in an ecological crash, the
>following suggests that the inevitability of crash is not limited to
>capitalist forms of human economic behavior, and that simply finding an
>alternative to capitalism, tho necessary, is not sufficient to prevent a
>crash:
>
>THE BOYES HYPOTHESIS
>
>Copyright James W. Boyes
>
>This hypothesis states
>
>1 that all anthropocentric societies will fail to make intelligent
>decisions to a sufficient degree to ensure their survival.
>
>2 that the reason for the failure to make intelligent decisions is that
>anthropocentric societies ignore their principal resource base, the
>natural world, treating economics and ecology as separate areas.
>
>3 that anthropocentric societies arise as a result of a colonising phase
>and are only able to enjoy an illusionary and temporary success by reason
>of the ready availability of resources.
>
>4 that a colonising phase is made possible by reason of new territory
>being available or new technology extending the capacity of the organism
>to exploit resources.
>
>5 that a colonising phase cannot be permanent as nothing keeps physically
>growing exponentially in nature forever.
>
>6 that the apparent benefits that new technology or conquest brings will
>mask the deterioration of the principal resource base, the natural world.
>
>7 that industrialised civilisation is the final episode of a colonising
>phase for a species known as homo sapiens. The opposite to a colonising
>phase could be called a climactic phase characterised by biocentric
>societies. We have spent most of our history in the latter phase.
>
>8 that the anthropocentric cultures which arise as a result of a
>colonising phase do not ensure that all decisions must be socially,
>economically and ecologically sound. This requires cultural mechanisms
>which arise from recognition of resource limitations.
>
>9 that given that colonising phases for human societies are energy
>intensive, the consequent depletion of physical resources and increase of
>entropy can be countered by adopting the alternative of being information
>intensive, bringing ever increasing economic, ecologic and social
>benefits.
>
>10 that the necessary shift from an anthropocentric society to a
>biocentric society will not be made unless there is no other choice,
>usually when the former phase becomes impossible to maintain due to
>resource depletion.
>
>11 that one of the characteristics which dominate humans in a colonising
>phase is arrogance.
>
>12 that biocentric societies invest in intelligence which defines their
>wealth whereas anthropocentric societies invest in delusions to the
>extent that stupidity is institutionalised.
>
>13 that industrialised societies are characterised by gross delusions
>about economics and efficiency
>
>14 that we depend on the natural world for health, wealth and happiness
>and as sacredness is a recognition of dependence then the natural world's
>interlocking systems, the one great ecosystem is sacred.
>
>15 that a culture which is an aberration in nature produces aberrant
>behaviour in groups and individuals e.g. extremes of anxiety, egotism,
>consumerism, addictions, aggression, paranoia, hysteria, mental
>disorders, prisons. These are symptoms not problems.
>
>Karl North
>Northland Sheep Dairy
>"Mother Nature never farms without animals" - Albert Howard
>"Pueblo que canta no morira" - Cuban saying
>
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