生态文明与一种共同体理论

The ecological civilisation and a theory of community

引言我们已经到达了人类历史上的决定性时刻。除非我们能够找到一条全人类共享的、能够与地球自然系统保持均衡关系的、满足地球人口基本物质需求的生态文明之路,否则我们就有可能成为首个故意选择自我灭绝的地球物种。这对中国来说是一种独特的挑战,因为中国必须从两种道路当中选择其一来引领世界。首先,中国可以选择成为一个统治全世界的超级大国,维持着这个临近崩溃的“帝国文明”式的全球治理体系。这一选择将注定导致全球生态系统的崩溃,甚至可能导致人类的灭绝。

Narratives of humankind shape our future,and the mechanistic dualism of the dominant Western narrative is a flawed narrative.At the same time,the insights of ancient Chinese philosophers provide a potentially powerful basis for the humankind’s transition to a viable future grounded in a co-productive human relationship with nature.The Theory of the Firm and the ideology on which it rests must be replaced by a new theory-a Theory of the Community-grounded in ancient Chinese thought and suited to guiding the transformation of society’s defining institutions and practices of management to align with underlying vision and principle of the ecological civilisation.From the community of life theory premise,this article proposes three foundational organizing principles from three aspects:the defining value and unit of organization,governance structures and processes and resource flows.These principles serve the future of mankind in building an ecological civilisation society in the future.All have important implications for how we structure and manage the relationships by which we harvest and allocate limited ecological resources.