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Human ecology is concerned with the relationships between people, and the relationships between people and their surrounding environment. Harmony may be defined as optimum conditions in these relationships, or on the other hand, as merely the absence of dysfunction. But in numerous situations, for example, our neighborhoods, communities, and nation states, dysfunction is clearly evident. All too often, these problems are chronic, intense, and extremely harm-ful to both environments and people. The application of social scientific knowledge from academic fields such as public health, social work, anthropology, psychology, and others can rectify or at least ameliorate some harmful conditions among people and in the transactions of people with their physical environments. However, many of the dysfunctional relationships we have emerge from deep-seated political and economic issues, particularly the inequitable distribution of wealth and resources. Human beings have not addressed, and have not solved fundamental problems of rights and responsibilities, equity and relationships, and good and evil. Gold stands as something with perpetual enduring value, unlike fiat money, and still serves much of the world as a fundamental measure for financial and economic purposes. No amount of cajoling by the Reserve Banks or the proverbial powers that be can persuade many human beings that the pieces of paper, plastic cards or pot metal coins, almost constantly losing value, will ever serve the same purpose. Gold has many adherents, who in history, have robbed, murdered, and destroyed environments just to obtain this precious metal. Times may have changed, but gold continues to entrance, so much so that people are willing, even eager, to destroy communities and the environment, simply to obtain more and more. |
