Social ecology
The second, social ecology, does not focus only on the natural environment, it wants the entire environment. It inserts the human and society into nature. It concerns itself not only with making the city a more beautiful place, with better streets and more attractive parks and beaches. It prioritizes basic sanitation, good public schooling, and decent health services. Social injustice signifies an act of violence against the single most complex being in the creation, the human being, man and woman. Humans are part and parcel of nature.

Social ecology advocates sustainable development, which attends to the basic needs of human beings today without sacrificing the Earth’s resources. It considers the necessities of future generations which have rights their own satisfaction and to inherit a habitable Earth with at least just human relations.

The type of society that has been constructed over the past 400 years impedes us from realizing sustainable development, being all consuming. Present society has built a model of development that practices the systematic pillaging of the Earth’s resources and exploits the work force.

Within the imagination of the founding countries of modern society, development was motivated by two extremes: infinity of natural resources and infinite development as a pathway to the future. This presupposition has proven itself to be illusionary. Resources are not infinite. Most of them are diminishing, especially fresh water and fossil fuels. The type of linear, growing development toward the future is not universalized, and is not therefore infinite. If Chinese families wanted cars like American families have, China would become an enormous parking lot. There would not be enough fuel and no one would be able to move.

We lack a sustainable society that seeks development for itself which is viable for the needs of all. Well-ness cannot be only social, it must also be socio-cosmic. It must attend to the needs of the other beings in nature, the plants, the animals, the microorganisms, because all together they constitute the planetary community, in which we are inserted and without whom we ourselves could not exist.