ABSTRACT

The human-nature relation is basically determined by interplay between technology, the economy and numbers. Through the strategy of exploitation and expansion, humanity is moving deeper into the funnel of Anthropocene. Climate change is a process of particular dignity as it is directly related to human economic activity and affects basically all systems; social, human-made and natural. Evolutionary coexistence forms such a model and could become a framework for sustainable human decision-making. Within this framework, the suggested changes in economic conceptualization and practice would form the basis for an economy which would serve the planet and its inhabitants over many generations instead of maximizing output and consumption for temporary human elite. The smaller role of human societies in terms of sheer size and dominance would be well compensated also with anthropocentric points of departure. When economic activity focuses on basic needs, quality of life and profound relations, well-being could be improved on material levels somewhere inbetween extremes.