ABSTRACT
The global environmental malaise confronting us today is symptomatic of a human malaise: an attitude that individuals have a right to pursue the good life with no concomitant duty of care to ensure that future generations also partake of that good life. Whether or not an individual decides to moderate their consumption of resources, and take responsibility for the continuing quality of life, becomes an act of conscience, a quality notoriously deficient in the make-up of the human mind.
