- Conservation dynamics. Politics is slowly changing its polit-
ical hue. The ‘green’ factors are associated with a small yet
ever-increasing proportion of the generally better incomed
who have the resources and mobility to access the likes of
recycling stations in suburbia and national parks outside
the city. The harrowing lessons of neglect and plunder from
the past remain etched on the humanized landscapes. Only
a few people, because the majority mostly live lives of insu-
larity or impoverishment, are appreciative of nature or are
in harmony with their environmental setting. Conservation
dynamics ‘shout’ in a small voice, heard more frequently,
but still with limited effect.
The challenge now is one of putting a stop to being so settler
societysmart, and to learn how to be much more clever; sus-
tainably and ethically through neomodern reasoning and
enabling actions (property protections, low inflation, fair judi-
ciary, scant corruption) expressed through open democratic
government. The call is for jurisdictions to be fair, to pursue
balanced growth, to design and provide security within
society, to strive for capacity empowerment and capacity ful-
filment, and to maintain a wholesome habitat. Most settler
society governments know and heed all these strictures in the
breach as a truism, yet most politicians genuflect still to big
money and growth.
The changes which have taken place in the Anglo New World,
particularly since the early nineteenth century, have been quick
and remarkable. Some issues of conscience remain over illegal
land appropriation of the first people’s hegemony, and the rein-
carnation of their belief about who they are and what they
stand for. There is no threat here, for the once frontier land-
scapes of settler societies are now largely a quilted patchwork
of towns and farms, schools and factories, playing fields and
parks, themselves quite stable. Land occupation, urban settle-
ment and profitable productions – these are all well imprinted,
flourishing and certain. Of course the future is never pre-
dictable; yet in pretty well every given situation, the settlement
pattern is firmly established. Low overall population densities,
resource richness, and geographical independence leave the
Anglo settler nations well placed to ‘tip the balance’ for an
ethically grounded triple-balanced harmony.
Producing out of, taking from, and putting organic waste back into the land-
water-air resource base, and living lightly on the ‘interest’ available from the
resource ‘capital’, is being approached more conscientiously and teleologically
than before. Some parts of settler society communities are turning to the earth and
Tipping the Balance 279Balanced urban-with-
rural Growth,
Wellbeing and Habitat:
1 Support projects
which require low
investment per
workplace created;
2 Network the local
wealth of talent;
3 Support inward
investment for
farming,
silviculture,
viticulture,
horticulture,
construction,
tourism and
community care;
4 Moderate
[watchdog] the
electricity,
telephone, water
supply and waste
disposal
provisioners;
5 Enhance training
programmes for
providing and
certifying core
skills;
6 Protect rights:
uphold political and
property rights,
safeguard
libertarian values:
and as a result of all
the above –
7 Generate
‘thousands’ of
additional, ordinary,
real-work jobs:
thereby
8 Reducing welfare
dependents by the
same number of
‘thousands’.