Let's save nature!: for her own sake, and not just our

If we want the endless negotiations on global warming to finally result in genuine and courageous political action, a significant shift in social and business practices, the protection of nature, and inclusive sustainable development for all nations - rich and poor alike - we will need to establish a new Doctrine of Being. This is where the shoe pinches; this is where our challenges pile up. This new ontology draws upon the wisdom-based heuristics of fear to arrive at a sense of responsibility towards nature and all that exists. This new ontology establishes the good in every being, and its value becomes a duty and a responsibility for the being of will: Man. It is to this new ethics that Hans Jonas has been inviting us since 1979 in The Imperative of Responsibility: An Ethics for Technological Civilisation, of which this work is an updated echo. To respond to his invitation is to renounce contentment with the traditional morality of 'I' and 'you' in favour of a new ethics of asymmetrical responsibility. Time is pressing us to do so.

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