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The 4 th COMEST E thics Of Science and Technology Inspired by S piritual M aturity. Chamniern Paul Vorratnchaiphan Thailand Environment Institute chamniern@tei.or.th. T hree snapshots:. T hree snapshots:. Kyoto Protocol The World Summit on Sustainable Development
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The 4th COMESTEthics Of Science and TechnologyInspired bySpiritual Maturity Chamniern Paul Vorratnchaiphan Thailand Environment Institute chamniern@tei.or.th
Three snapshots: Three snapshots: • Kyoto Protocol • The World Summit on Sustainable Development • The Millenium Development Goals
Earth, Our Home…. • The Protection of Earth’s vitality, diversity, and beauty is a scared trust • To realize these aspirations, we must decide to live with a sense of universal responsibility, identifying ourselves with the whole Earth community as well as our local communities
Respect Earth and life in all its diversity, • Care for the community of life with understanding, compassion, and love, • Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social, environmental imperative, • This requires a change of mind and heart.
Failures Failures • Instrumental Value Theories • Economic instruments • Political Economy of decision making
THESE ARE NOT strong enough to protect nature from human induced destruction
Environmental Ethics characterise environmental predicaments a crisis of culture and character • What is the cause ?? What is the answer/way out?? • Deep Ecology = Intrinsic Values • Shallow Ecology = Anthropocentric
Failures Spirituality Spirituality • Goes beyond scientific, technological, financial and environmental framework towards an awareness of the oneness of all life, the interdependence of multiple manifestations and its cycles of change and transformation • Deep EcologicalAwareness is Spiritual Awareness
Failures Spirituality Spirituality Spiritual Tradition • Is a mode of consciousness in which individual and community fells connected to the cosmos, a part of the whole, not a master. No single phenomenon can fully explained.
Northern region Lanna Kingdom Hill Tribes Animism Buddhism • Forest • River • Land
Livelihood from nature • Destruction of the spirit and the living
Respect • Gratitude • Kalayamamitra
Restraining from bad deeds Respect Kindness
Science & Technology Spirituality Maturity
Sustainable Development In Style of ..Integration and Balanceinspired by Spiritual Maturity