Ecological Civilization—The Chinese Path
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The nation is now standing tall in the world’s east in a brand new outlook, making
greater contributions to humankind as it approaches the center of global stage.
Under the CPC’s leadership, the ecological civilization drive has become a state
action and a grand endeavor of the whole nation. Chines people are walking toward
the glorious road of building an ecological civilization.
3 Ecological Civilization—An All-Round Transformation
of Human Society
The academic circle has voiced different kinds of views and statements on what
ecological civilization is. We believe ecological civilization is a new form of human
society. The global ecological crisis breaking out in the middle of the twentieth
century severely challenged human existence and became the focal social problem,
heralding the arrival of a fundamental reform in world history. The crisis, featuring
environmental pollution, ecological damage and resource shortage, indicated that the
industrial civilization was declining while a new civilization—ecological civilization—was rising. By building an ecological civilization, we will realize a comprehensive social transformation and integrate ecological progress in social, institutional,
material and cultural efforts. A new, sustainable human society will be created—a
society of ecological civilization featuring social harmony between man and man
and harmonious co-existence between man and nature.
According to the book Ecological Civilization: A Comprehensive Transformation
of Human Society, ecological civilization is a new and sustainable form of human
society that aims for man’s reconciliation with ecology and society through all-round
transformation.
(1) Transformation of values: we should abandon human-centrism and individualism and foster the core social values of man-nature harmony.
(2) Transformation of philosophy: we should move from the philosophy of man
dominating nature to man existing in harmony with nature. A transformation
of philosophical pattern should be effected from the modern “subject-object
dichotomy” to the environmental philosophy of man-nature unity.
(3) Transformation of social politics: we should change from the “capitalist
despotism” of industrial civilization to “people’s democracy” of ecological
civilization.
(4) Transformation of production mode: we should create advanced ecological
technologies and processes and shift from a linear, non-circular economy to
an ecological, circular and low-carbon economy.
(5) Transformation of way of life: we should depart from high consumption to
green consumption and live a simple, low-carbon and equitable life. That’s a
sustainable lifestyle of a higher level.
521
The nation is now standing tall in the world’s east in a brand new outlook, making
greater contributions to humankind as it approaches the center of global stage.
Under the CPC’s leadership, the ecological civilization drive has become a state
action and a grand endeavor of the whole nation. Chines people are walking toward
the glorious road of building an ecological civilization.
3 Ecological Civilization—An All-Round Transformation
of Human Society
The academic circle has voiced different kinds of views and statements on what
ecological civilization is. We believe ecological civilization is a new form of human
society. The global ecological crisis breaking out in the middle of the twentieth
century severely challenged human existence and became the focal social problem,
heralding the arrival of a fundamental reform in world history. The crisis, featuring
environmental pollution, ecological damage and resource shortage, indicated that the
industrial civilization was declining while a new civilization—ecological civilization—was rising. By building an ecological civilization, we will realize a comprehensive social transformation and integrate ecological progress in social, institutional,
material and cultural efforts. A new, sustainable human society will be created—a
society of ecological civilization featuring social harmony between man and man
and harmonious co-existence between man and nature.
According to the book Ecological Civilization: A Comprehensive Transformation
of Human Society, ecological civilization is a new and sustainable form of human
society that aims for man’s reconciliation with ecology and society through all-round
transformation.
(1) Transformation of values: we should abandon human-centrism and individualism and foster the core social values of man-nature harmony.
(2) Transformation of philosophy: we should move from the philosophy of man
dominating nature to man existing in harmony with nature. A transformation
of philosophical pattern should be effected from the modern “subject-object
dichotomy” to the environmental philosophy of man-nature unity.
(3) Transformation of social politics: we should change from the “capitalist
despotism” of industrial civilization to “people’s democracy” of ecological
civilization.
(4) Transformation of production mode: we should create advanced ecological
technologies and processes and shift from a linear, non-circular economy to
an ecological, circular and low-carbon economy.
(5) Transformation of way of life: we should depart from high consumption to
green consumption and live a simple, low-carbon and equitable life. That’s a
sustainable lifestyle of a higher level.