Adaptive ecology is about making the world a better place to live in. From simply making a difference, to  leaving the world a kindlier, safer altogether saner place for our children and grandchildren than we found it, to helping to save the planet from destruction by ourselves, working to make the world a better place to live in is the simplest, most credible and communicable vernacular way to expressing adaptive instincts and sentiments specific to human nature. Emotions, intuitions, and first principles: the personal feelings that dictate values and ideals of human thought, and rational imperatives of ecological adaptation are universally evident in the homely metaphor of working to make the world a better place to live in. Health, learning, peace and love, the symbiotic/altruistic/ethical or, so-called, moral elements of human animal nature that motivate behavior and lifestyle, and the workday synonyms for adaptive ecology, as the most urgent concern on everyone's mind, are clearly indicated in the primal intuition of working to make the world a better place to live in. Everyone agrees that the world is getting into deeper ecological trouble and knows that we are not doing nearly our best to contravene the destructive economic, political, social and broadly cultural forces of plutocratic/fascistic urban-industrial-technological settlement strategy and the money-crazed over-consumption of neurotic city-living people or, so-called, Western civilization, in a word, us. in the throes of corporate, capitalist globalization we find ourselves stalled in proto-rational, religion-based atavism, facing a more insidious, pathological, culture of christianoid whiteness and wealth: supremacism, imperialism, militarism, racism, sexism and compulsive consumerism, than the grim ordeal of class-stratified urbanization and the hegemony of the rich that we have endured since the end of the last ice age. Fear, disease, famine and war still dog the human hoof-print.

No one, apparently, has a clue what to do about it. there is no shred evidence in the political consciousness of ecological adaptation on the agenda of any national government in the world. While billions scream for peace, the putative liberal democracy touted by neo-fascist American mouthpieces as the end of history is merely sophisticated capitalism/racist mouthwash, intended to pacify the ultra rich and further subdue grass roots, working class people. Worldwide, even non-government organizations avoid the use of the word ecology, for fear of which they surreptitiously substitute the non-equivalent buzz words, conservation, environmental and, sustainable, accordingly eviscerating ecological adaptation of its meaning as human destiny, and the optimal strategy for post-industrial settlement. Glutted on over-consumption, waste and pollution of the worlds desperately needed manpower and other natural resources required to restore the planet's ecological viability, ecological adaptation is simply not an allowable option for suffering life.

Ecological adaptation, in principle provides the theoretical base o which to premise biological human natue and instinct-based adaptive interactions with on-the-ground reality. Adaptation is the missing link between human nature and settlement strategy; the missing link in ecological thinking. the mystiques of growth  and progress: amassing wealth and urban sprawl of Western civilization, really, are as ecologically illegitimate as they are intellectually and politically bankrupt and, intimately maladaptive. We need to consciously: intentionally and deliberately install ecological adaptation as the central theme of post-industrial settlement strategy, now.