 It's a great pleasure for me to participate in this symposium, but I'm sorry, my English is not good, so I'll just read the PowerPoint. I think that the global environmental crisis is one of the symptoms of modality. In other words, it is a crisis caused by modern Western civilization. To use the method of analysis of culture or cultural analysis, we might clearly know why modern Western civilization has caused global economic crisis or that modern Western civilization is not sustainable. I think a culture or civilization basically has three dimensions, one, material objects including mobile or television set, cars, et cetera, and two, institutions, three, ideas and values. Now let's look at some modern Western civilization. Its material objects are industrial products produced by machines or systems or machines using mineral fuels and resources. I think that cars are the typical products used by modern people, and based on the production and consumption is anti-ecology or anti-natural and it always pollutes the environment. And its institutions mainly are capitalism and democracy. And the ideas and values are physicalism, scientism, liberalism, utilitarianism, or economism. And now I think that materialism is the mainstream of the values in, I think it's all over the world, especially in China today. So generally speaking, the whole modern civilization is anti-economical and the global economical crisis is a result of the global expansion of modern civilization. So from a point of view of college or from a point of view of Confucianism, we can definitely judge that modern civilization with mass production, mass consumption, and mass waste is unsustainable. So by comparing to ancient Chinese civilization, we can know more clearly why modern civilization is unsustainable. Let's look at ancient Chinese civilization. So its material objects are mainly local agricultural products produced by plants and animals through sunsets with help from human and critters and no chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used. And so solar energy is main energy for the Chinese production of material objects. So it is obvious that sooner energy is the most clean energy. And the institutions of ancient China is quite complicated. I think it is a hierarchy with emperor in the top, but scholars are consists of leading class largely. And the fundamental principle of promoting agriculture and restraining commercial business is consistently the guidance of the construct and reformation of social institutions. I think this point is very important that the scholars are the leading class in ancient China. China is not the commercial a-needs of scholars who are the leading class of ancient China. And so I think to restraining the commercial business is also very important for the ancient Chinese civilization. And the ideas and the values are mainly confucianism with tourism and Buddhism as complement. But confucianism, tourism and Buddhism are all very friendly to natural environments. So I think that the confucianism is quite economical. So my point of view is both confucian and economical. So from the perspective of ecology, ancient Chinese civilization is good. Why modern civilization is bad? Because the nature is not sustainable. But since the failure of the British-Opium war, Chinese in general and Chinese intellectuals in particular gradually lost their faith in their own civilization and tradition. People think that China has to learn thoroughly from Western and has to change every dimension of the old civilization to survive. Since then, modernity has gradually become the most popular ideology or most strong ideology in China. Many intellectuals like Chen Duxiu and Lu Xun are very famous intellectuals in the last century. They think that only when we abandon the ancient tradition of China firmly can we make modernization in China smoothly. And many intellectuals in today's China still think so. And the Chinese Communist Party accepts the basic goals of modernity, though its guiding principles is Marxism, not liberalism. And Marxism, I think, is an alternative or modality. And modernization is a basic ideal to change China. And the Chinese Communist Party accepts this ideal without any doubt and hesitation. So the Great Revolution of China, our culture, known to buy more with a radical effort to change Chinese culture or civilization according to Marxism. And most cultural ideas, but the efficiency was not so good as expected. Since 1978, modernization and also westernization in some degree have been rapidly developed with the growing of market economy. And today, there are more and more cars, trains, airplanes, and factories in China. In cities, there are TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditions in almost every family. And the cities are getting larger and larger, and more and more new cities or towns have appeared. But the environment is polluted very heavily, and the health of ecosystems is getting worse and worse. So it is called development, and it is even called scientific development. And it is also the development of westernization. But I think this kind of development is definitely unsustainable in China, just as it is in other countries. Fortunately, some people in China have realized that we cannot develop like this anymore. And the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party begin to call on people to construct economic civilization since 2007. Now more and more intellectuals realize that ancient Chinese civilization is not as bad as Chengduxiu, Hu Shi, and Lu Xun had judged in the beginning of the 20th century. Actually, ancient Chinese civilization is a kind of ecological civilization. We cannot go back to ancient civilization. But I think we can then, and not from our ancestors, when we try to construct a new eco civilization in the future. A new eco civilization will also inherit good elements from modern western civilization. We have to admit that ideas about ecological civilization are not yet the mainstream ideas in today's China. Actually, the majority of Chinese just begin to enjoy all kinds of goods from modernization and westernization. For instance, enjoy driving cars, enjoy the cool made by air conditions, enjoy Hollywood movies, and even enjoy the funds to spend some western festivals, for instance, Christmas. Among those who think that environment should be protected, there is no consensus about what ecological civilization is. Roughly there are two definitions of ecological civilization. One defines the ecological civilization as enlightened behaviors and rational social systems to protect environments. This is the main understanding about ecological civilization in today's China. Another defines ecological civilization as a completely new civilization in the whole history of humankind. So the key difference is focused on the faith in modernization. Those accepting the first definition have not lost their faith in modernity, and they think that problems or pollution can be solved easily by innovation of science and technology. Those accepting the second think that modernity is essentially false, and humankind can live safely in the earth only when modern civilization is overcome. I think that ecological civilization is the only choice for humankind in the future, and I accept the second definition of ecological civilization. So still I'm belonging to the minority in China today. With new sciences such as ecology and new physics and recent philosophical studies, we can criticize both modernity and ancient Confucianism and try to make some ideas clear which can guide the construction of ecological civilization. I think that the ecological civilization should be like this. Its material objects should be products produced by ecological culture, crafts and green industry, and its institutions should be the market economy ruled by ecology, the rule of law and democracy. The ideas and values should be, I think it should be transcendental. Naturalism and the brutal philosophies or religions beyond materialism. I think that agriculture should be the foundation of human economy in ecological civilization. I'm not sure whether we can have a real green industry if industry should be defined as a system of mass production. The key of the construction of the institution for ecological civilization is to use ecology instead of logical capital as a guidance. Only then can the institutions refrain people's greed. I think it is impossible to unify all people's faith in the world. As John Ross says, reasonable pluralism will be a permanent condition under the conditions of democracy. Because nobody can prove that there is only one system of truth and any belief conflicted with it are false. But we can prove that physicalism, scientism and materialism are ridiculous. Only when we abandon physicalism can it be possible for us to realize that nature is indeed related to the creation of unpredictable novelty, where the possible is richer than the real. This is a quotation from a famous scientist. I cannot pronounce his name in English. I know his name in Chinese. Then it is possible for us to revere for nature. When we begin to revere for nature, we will not only respect the integrity, stability and beauty of the earth. If you still believe in scientism, you won't believe that there is any serious crisis in modern civilization. We can find believers of scientism easily in today's China. So the second definition of eco-civilization will be resisted for a long time. Those believing in scientism usually reject non-anthropocentrism and think that it is ridiculous or stupid to prove that non-human things, including animals, plants and ecosystems, have any intrinsic value. Maybe it is impossible to make all people abandon axiological materialism, but we have to try our best to dispel it from the guiding ideas of construction and reformation of institutions. It can be proved to be ridiculous easily from any perspectives of transcendental philosophies and religions, but it is still spread every day all over the world through the media. So only when the majority of people in society realize that axiological materialism is ridiculous can they begin to spend more of their time and energy to do many things beyond making and spending money, and mass production, mass consumption, and mass waste can be held back, then the health of ecosystems can be protected effectively. Only when people reject physicalism, scientism, and materialism can they realize that modern industrial civilization with mass production, mass consumption, and mass waste is unsustainable, and ecological civilization is the only way to go for humankind in the future. I think that Christians, Buddhists, Confucians, and other believers who have rejected physicalism, scientism, and materialism will all agree to choose eco-civilization. Thank you very much.