Each individual and all life on Earth has value in itself. This includes cultural life forms. These values are independent of usefulness for human beings. The life forms unfolds in mutuality, with life quality as basis for relationships and civilisation. Diversity and richness of life forms are essential for the unfoldment of these values.
Human beings are unique life forms.
With their ability both to create and to destroy, they have a corresponding responsibility for life on Earth. It is possible and desirable, with respect for all individuals and cultures, to work for a long term decrease of the number of humans on Earth. At present, human interference in the basis of life on Earth is so extensive that it threatens the existence of life itself. A new politics is possible and desirable. A society with quality of life can be built on dialogue and an extended view of the human being, on cooperation and carefulness with the resources of Earth.