When we look up the meaning of the word “ethics” we find that it represents the interpretation between what is good and bad. We would assume that such and interpretation has a uniform understanding across humankind. But is far from the reality. Interpretations about good and bad are highly subjective, relative to which point of view we take to look at the interpretation of reality. The financial hierarchy for instance looks at ethics in a totally different way than human rights movements or religious doctrines. There is an evolutionary foundation to this that relates to the way we deal with the aspect of “self interest” and how we relate to other people and our environment. This regularly leads to conflicts between all of these elements, that all defend their own interpretation of good and bad. Some:

• apply lawful impositions to get what they stand for (if you don’t pay we take away your rights),
• use threats (if you don’t go to church you will not go to heaven),
• create explosive acts of revolution and war (equal rights for women).

Justice is biased within the arena of which the good and bad is applied. With the current state of ethics we cannot solve the conflicts in the world, nor the tension between people, our natural environment, the growing polarization, war environments, discrimination, genocides, poverty, general human suffering, elimination of biodiversity, the overall threat of human self elimination.

In view of the problems that we face as humankind there is a huge need to evolve. All together we need to develop a mature, non/competitive, constructive view on reality and accept a next level of ethics that covers our common existential interests. Sustainocracy has initiated this by defining Existential Human Ethics as a shared responsibility between people and institutions for a set of essential natural human values. This level of ethics defines what we need to do to respect life in general and of every human being specifically, placing us all in the context of our natural biological environment that delivers our basic needs (our source of existence). It is great that we have developed scientific knowledge and all kinds of technologies to support us, but this needs to be deployed within the Existentialist Ethical environment, rather than solely within a single field of self interest. The level of ethics defined by Sustainocacy has proven to establish a positive, productive, project driven convergence between all the fragmented silos of society. This convergence has the possibility to cover and satisfy all the older levels of ethics, without conflict or unnecessary impositions, but with the development of our sustainable perspectives as human beings.