Welcome

This website promotes the cause of ecological sustainability. By that, we mean that the conservation of environmental systems, biodiversity and bioregional human cultures must be society’s overriding goal. We are committed to a politics for life on earth, all life not just its human form. This politics is founded on an ethos of ‘enoughness’, sharing the Earth’s bounty, rather than the avaricious ‘moreness’ that dominates contemporary culture.

To put it another way, we oppose the suicidal politics of unlimited expectations and open-ended entitlements, be they under the guise of the so-called ‘free’ market’, ‘mixed’ economies or centrally planned economic systems. We are therefore against unrestrained population growth and the pursuit of open-ended economic expansion. We similarly dissent from the modern cult of the 'technofix', salvation through technological miracles. Equally, we seek to unmask fraudulent goals and policies such as so-called  sustainable development.

Tragically, most organisations and indeed large sections of the general public are living in a fantasy world. They behave as if it were possible for society to continue on its present course without disaster. They are living as if there were no tomorrow, thus ensuring that the future will be bleak indeed. The overriding and all-embracing issue today is that the foundations of life on Earth are crumbling. The only truly realistic politics is one that address that reality.

The primary challenge of our times, then, is to cut down the scale of human activity and live within natural limits, to ‘think shrink’. All else is a matter, as Fritz Schumacher once put it, of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Overall, our culture, our technologies, our political and economic systems, must be rooted in the checks and balances of life on Earth .…and the sooner we begin to make the transition, the easier and more satisfactory it is likely to be.

The ecological alternative — a society sustainably in balance with the Earth’s capacities, patterns and rhythms — is also one which most likely will deliver a way of life more satisfying and, indeed, more convivial than the destructive rat race that is the hallmark of contemporary lifestyles. Ecocentrism — Earth first — not egocentrism must be the watchword.

Publications Plan

The Ecological Sustainability website seeks to publish material of genuine substance and relevance. But we feel there is no value in the mealy-mouthed fudging, not least about overpopulation. We aim to be forthright and indeed blunt. We firmly believe that the multiple and interacting crises it seeks to address are not some tragedy but the product of identifiable and usually deliberate actions for which those responsible should be held to account. That said, we also seek to be fair and reasonable. The Ecological Sustainability website is, then, about sharp-edged polemic, backed by solid evidence and robust argument. We believe that there is now an even more urgent need for such material given the disappearance or makeover of magazines like The Ecologist that once performed that role. The costs of printing and difficulties with traditional means of distribution make it necessary to rely on electronic media, despite our deep reservations about computerisation. 

There will be different types of material:

1. Bibliographic studies guiding readers to the best literature on various topics.

2. Essays on currently topical issues and debates. They will include critiques of particular organisations and individuals.

3. Reviews of books, films, music and so forth.

4. Cartoons & photographs.

5. Adworlds, looking at the use and abuse of words and images in advertisements.

Copyright

All our material can be freely copied but we would appreciate due acknowledgement as well as any publicity you can give to our project.

Contact us:
This site has been created by the Ecological Publishing Project. We can be contacted at:

epp@blueyonder.co.uk

For details of the origins of the EPP and our view of the world see:

About Us