Our Environmental Future

The Earth is a remarkable place because its surface is covered in life. This life is sustained by a wide range of factors which include both interactions between different life forms and between life forms and other environnmental factors such as energy from the sun, water, air and the materials in the Earth's crust.

We don't know for sure how this all came about and we don't know where it is all going - but we do know that both individual life forms and the totality of life itself are fragile things. Indeed both the very existence and the nature of life seem like miracles - not replicated anywhere else in the Solar System and possibly in the Universe.

This miracle seems worth preserving in so far as we humans can have any influence on it. The crucial issue is sustainability. For the most part part Nature, the web of life's interconnectivity, redresses unsustainable actions of its own accord. This can take a very long time though and some of the actions of humans could well impact on future generations. Do we have a responsibility to future generations to pass Nature on in as sustainable a form as possible? If you have grandchildren the answer is obvious.