PHISOLAMA FOUNDATION recognizes the profound significance
of the environment in all of its many attributes -- from the neighborhood back
lot or local section of land to the entire planet and all species within its
purview as a complete, connected entity. PHISOLAMA is accordingly dedicated to
ecologically sound and sustainable solutions in all of its many varied and
diverse endeavors. To this end, the PHISOLAMA will actively support and
promulgate the following principles:
Seventh Generation
Acknowledgment --
In the spirit of those who have lived as part of the land, all decisions, which
may effect the natural and created environments, will consider the effects of
such decisions on any future seventh generation. This long-range view will
prevail over short-term solutions, profit oriented perspectives, and matters of
expediency, and other limited vantage points.
Humanity is a fundamental aspect of the ecology. Human
beings and their interaction with other species is intricately linked within any environment. This
does not imply the precedence of one species over another, but instead an
attitude of common cause where all species knowingly or unknowingly recognize
the contribution of all other species to the common good.
"In wilderness is the preservation of the world." Humanity
for its own purposes -- as well as in having a profound respect for the habitats
of other species -- requires the existence and availability of wilderness in all
of its many forms (from deserts to mountains to rain forests to marshes).
The adage, "the solution to pollution is dilution", is in
and of itself a limited truth. While all human activities may be considered
polluting (or more accurately, affecting the environment), the degree to which
such pollution occurs can be modified by conscious choice of which activities
are pursued, as well as the manner in which they are conducted.
Quality of Life is a fundamental consideration in all
activities of humanity and other species. Furthermore, such quality of life may
depend upon the availability of adequate space (or volume) in order for each
species to pursue their own particular form of destiny.
In recognition of these principles, and to foster the aims
of the FOUNDATION in pursuing ecologically sound activities, PHISOLAMA will
pursue the following: Engage in a continuing, rational dialogue regarding the
effects of human population on the local and global environments, as well as the
voluntary and unforced methods that may be applied to reduce significantly the
deleterious effects on the ecology by any unbalanced population of any
species.
Foster activities that address in a positive way
¨Alternative industrial
and military processes that will enhance the environment instead of degrading
it.
¨Providing alternatives to poverty and thus alleviating the necessity
of poverty based choices that might result in environmental degradation.
¨Elimination of survivability belief
issues (based upon increasingly outdated economic or protection style logic)
such that individuals have alternatives to concentrated centers of humanity
(cities).
¨Solutions and suggested
modifications to often ancient, obsolete cultural dynamics based on a lack of
future or present resources and which are ultimately deleterious to the
environment.
¨Promote solutions to
providing material needs to individuals throughout the world in such a manner as
to alleviate indirectly the causes of ecological and environmental
devastation.
¨Encourage the promulgation of
PHISOLAMA principles and values which can directly or indirectly modify existing
paradigms of scarcity, fear, and survivability, and which, therefore, indirectly
promotes improvements in the environment, both locally and globally.
¨Advocate the humane treatment of
all species of life (including so-called food stocks), the continuation of
species currently endangered, and the increasing recognition of the sentient
possibilities of other species.
¨Promote restoration
and regeneration of Ecological sub-systems and resources that have been
degraded.
¨Actively support organic and other forms of ecologically sound
agricultural applications, and seek every means possible to stem the flow of
environmentally toxic chemical pollutants into the environment from any and all
sources, including agricultural.
¨Promote the Earth as a repository
of nurturing, unconditional abundance for all species, but with the proviso
that, "Its not nice to fool Mother
Nature."
¨Anticipating and preventing
problems are better than trying to react and fix them after they occur.
¨Accounting must reflect all
long-term environmental and economic costs, not just those of the current
market.
¨The best decisions are those based on sound, accurate, and
up-to-date information.
¨We must live off the interest our environment provides and
not destroy its capital base.
¨The quality of social and economic development must take
precedence over quantity.
¨We must respect nature and the rights of future generations.