Abstract
The current global survival strategy appears incompatible with the preservation of global environment. Globalized market economy is not resolving but accelerating the divide between the haves and the have-nots in the world. Global warming is taking place mainly through the two contrasting types of ecological destruction: one, generation of green house gases in the wealthy regions, notably in the United States, and the other, destruction of the eco-system represented by de-forestation and desertification in the poverty stricken regions. Neo-liberal market economy ideally functions in "the open system" where the space is big enough not to be affected by human activities and man has freedom to move to the next new frontier. However, the earth is displaying, with the growth of human activities, ever more clearly the features of "the closed system", e.g. limited space and natural resource. Neo-liberal economy has its origin in the survival strategy and the ethics which have evolved through the survival in the open-system and it prioritizes autonomy and liberty to satisfy individual greed. Since the earth is a typical closed-system unable to absorb the impact of human activities, global warming is expected to escalate beyond control. Solving the environmental problems requires the global preponderance of the closed-system ethics characterized by curbing individual greed.
