Blog #4 "Green Values"

      Green Values as a whole seemed very interesting to say the least. Some I could understand and would like to follow, and others just seemed a little too "out there." One that I agreed with was the one which claimed that humans were not dominant over nature but rather part of it along with everything else on the planet. So often does one see the human race as a whole live in the moment and live to exploit time, money, and resources just for a profit in the foreseeable future. Humans are supposed to be more in-tune with nature, giving back as much as they take. This unfortunately has never been the case. Another value I agreed with was "think globally, act locally." I thought that was especially true, because one always needs to be conscious of global impact, and do to something about it, acting locally should be the first step. Many times, businesses and corporations act for profit in the "here and now" rather than thinking of impacts hundreds of years in the future like the Green Values call for.
      One Green Value I did not agree with was the statement that humans have never meant to be in hierarchy because that is against their nature. In no way have I personally seen this to be the case. Always money and power create a hierarchy in human society: always have and always will. Green Values would ideally have all people equal and share their resources equally, which sounds almost communistic. This sort of surprised me the most about the readings because some of them like this one were just out of the question and seemingly impossible to apply to human society.