Any damage done by mankind to the environment will boomerang. In view of the ineluctability of the situation, he may have to do more than just try. This raises the question of political feasibility. We live in a age of disillusionment with all previous political solutions and organizations. The impact of one's actions not only on part but on the whole of a system has to be considered and evaluated.
Ecological understanding has to be a prerequisite for policy-making.
They must set up suitably empowered bodies, charged with the task of preserving and enhancing the variety and diversity of all life-forms, as well as of abiotic nature, with the purview of justice and the right to quality of life for all people, compatible with the responsibility man has as a guardian of, and a dependent on, other life forms. Quality of life, which we equate with flexibility of choices, freedom of action, and a measure of harmony in our relations to our environment, represents, to a large degree, the quality of individuals. It is only an informed and motivated public, with each individual a dependent and responsible part of a larger system, that induces its leaders to take decisive action toward a habitable planet. No institution will be responsive unless its members assert their collective and individual responsibilities and work toward a dependable and developing knowledge, with a minimum of bureaucratically conditioned reflexes. It is interdisciplinary and looks to the future.