The well being of human and nonhuman life on earth have value in themselves; I agree; other life forms are important just because they exist and give rise to other life.
Richness and diversity of life forms are also values in themselves; diversity is necessary for survival. An example of why diversity is necessary for survival is ; crops as monocultures have devastating effects.
Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity; I think that's true; we can only exept that for vital reasons we need to reduce the diversity around us, but that's only in an emergency situation.
The present human interference with the nonhuman world is excessive, and the situation is rapidly worsening; that's right; this is what's happening unless we can agree that the situation has turned around.
The ideological change is mainly that of appreciating life quality, rather than adhering to increasingly higher standards of living. I feel that that is something we need to do; we need to appreciate life quality, and reduce our standard of living; it will be worth doing that if we see that life around us starts to flourish more.
Those who subscribe to the foregoing points have an obligation to participate in the attempt to implement the necessary changes; this is true in my eyes; if we believe this we have to find a way to implement it.
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