Epilogue

Epilogue is a WIP. Placeholder language follows.

The inalienable obligations we have explored in this book do not end with the last chapter. They extend into every choice, every action and inaction, every institution, and every generation that follows ours. To replace inalienable rights with inalienable obligations, as a living value system and as a jurisprudence, is not to surrender rights, but to ground societies in the living systems proven over 3 billion years that vest all life, humans included, with its fullest and healthiest form.

A just society, in fact a just civilization built on a flourishing earth, cannot be built by asserting rights. It can only be built by recognizing the inalienable obligations to harmonious biodiversity that life on earth has relied on from its inception to today and into the future.