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Stable Imbalances

The Ecology of the Future
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Stable Imbalances / Stabile Ungleichgewichte
The Ecology of the Future
Maintaining the biodiversity of the earth is one of the main goals of the United Nations' mission for the future. It hopes to achieve this by preserving a static world view. Modern conservation also places emphasis on the »balance of the natural environment« and thereby on a static concept of ecology.


Josef H. Reichholf, who is considered the ‘enfant terrible' of environmentalism radically challenges this approach. He argues: In a changing world, future goals cannot be applied to...
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Maintaining the biodiversity of the earth is one of the main goals of the United Nations' mission for the future. It hopes to achieve this by preserving a static world view. Modern conservation also places emphasis on the »balance of the natural environment« and thereby on a static concept of ecology.


Josef H. Reichholf, who is considered the ‘enfant terrible' of environmentalism radically challenges this approach. He argues: In a changing world, future goals cannot be applied to conditions of yesterday or the day before yesterday. Imbalances are the driving forces behind natural evolution and economic and social developments. Balances on the other hand, lead to ossification, in their ultimate form they are the death of all life. Our time urgently requires us to turn away from the conservative philosophy of ecology. Although the pursuit of equilibrium represents an inner necessity for man's physicality, a world view based on this mutates into ecologism and becomes a pseudo-religion with fundamentalist traits. Therefore it is important to find and develop sufficiently stable imbalances - natural and human diversity will show us how.

2008, 138 pages
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Josef H. Reichholf, born in 1945, teaches Conservation and Ecology at the Technical University in Munich. He is the head of the Vertebrate Department of the Munich Zoological State Collection. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences' Commission for Ecology and of the Steering Committee of WWF Germany. In 2007, Reichholf was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature.

Josef H. Reichholf, born in 1945, teaches Conservation and Ecology at the Technical University in Munich. He is the head of the Vertebrate...