The economic
system is a partial and participating system in the entire and embracing
ecological system. Thus the former must be within and in harmony with the
latter, according to the above principles. Our economic life must also be
within and in harmony with the global and local ecological system in concrete
ways as follows:
Material
flow (5Rs) Information flow (5As)
1.
Reduce Access
2.
Reuse Assess
3.
Recycle Agree
4.
Rearrange Act
5.
Restore Advise
As the
natural outcome of the Declaration, and as a result of the disastrous global
economic meltdown, there emerged the Manifesto for a Global Economic Ethic:
Consequences for Global Bussiness (issued by the Global Ethic Foundation in
Tuebingen in April 1, 2009, with a list of the first signatories). These are
good guidelines for an economic ethic for our future.
We must
follow a Global Ethic and an Economic Ethic, in the very crucial realm of human
actions, that is based on the universal fundamental law of the global life
system. Otherwise, the global life system and economic system will be destroyed
by the destruction of the wholly wholesome ecological system. The global ethic
in economy and ecology is essential to our security and survival.
To
actualize our secure survival we must strive to follow such ethic ourselves and
must serve others to do the same with prognosis and practice. Ecology requires
human responsibilities in it, not human rights beyond ecology. Thus, the Global
Ethic must be issued from the UN urgently as an essential counterpart of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. All nations and natives of the
ecological system must follow it.
Rosan Osamu Yoshida
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