Human Economy and Social Responsibility

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For as long as humans have inhabited the earth, they have questioned their relationship with it and, now more frequently, their responsibility for it. This paper looks at the views of philosophers on man's social responsibility to earth, beginning with the ideas of Rene Descartes and then moving on to John Locke, Adam Smith and ending with ecology experts such as Rashmi Mayur. The paper looks at the threat of economic globalization on the earth's social structure and examines ways to correct the damage already done.

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"Finally, Mayur argues that today we must reconsider our ideas of the kinds of cities, towns, and villages in which we want to live. We must ask ourselves how we can create human settlements that function as self-sustaining eco-habitats (Mayur, 1996). For many millennia human beings lived in harmony with nature in well-integrated cultures and, even today, the millions of people living in the 600,000 villages of India, several hundred thousand villages of China and tribal communities of Africa and South America live modest, yet fulfilling and sustainable lives (Mayur, screen 4). However, the pressures of "globalization" are driving millions out of such communities and into the wretched cities and megacities (Mayur, screen 4)."

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