We need to start restoring to give energy back to the planet. We have to allow Earth time and space to heal itself, assist forest regeneration, wetland regeneration, and so on. Our attitudes must follow from the fact the planet is small. Quantitative , material goods are limited, but the qualitative goods, the joys of going to symphonies, walking in the woods, are infinite . Earth is our only home here in the darkness of space, it is time we settled down as though we meant to stay here.
Present economies depend on inflaming human appetites out of all proportion to basic human needs.
After that, we could get on to the true creative and spiritual goals of human life. Today, economics has become the whole of human life, and ravaging the planet its first priority. A sustainable economics has to mirror the Great Economy of Nature in satisfying human needs, not human greed. Let economists become planetary . Design economies which will satisfy human needs and nature's needs at the same time, economies which benefit both the human and the Earth, in which the needs of every species on the Earth are satisfied.