Our positions and editorial content are grounded in the following guiding beliefs.

• If we are unable to recalibrate our relationship with the natural environment, future generations will be burdened with a drastically diminished quality of life.
• Climate change poses a threat to the safety of every human being in every nation on the planet.
• Climate change and environmental degradation create existential risks, caused by our decision to gamble on the outcomes of unsustainable activity.
• Expanding human activity causes damage to the ecosystems which we depend upon to survive.
• The costs of coping with environmental degradation and climate change in the future will be substantially more expensive than the costs of preventative measures in the present.
• Humans can correct our societal, political, economic and jurisdictional structures to shape a wiser global society and create more equitable welfare for all the Earth’s inhabitants.
• While capitalism is an effective mechanism to organise human efforts, neglecting the negative consequences of economic activity can leave us prone to tremendously harmful side-effects. But if these consequences were to be addressed fully by government policies, market forces could organically catalyse sustainable human behaviour.
• Excessive use of natural resources, environmental damage and detriments to happiness must be factored into measures of welfare.
• Government policies must aspire to maximize welfare for all inhabitants. Their evaluation must factor in natural resources usage, resulting damage to the planet and harm to society.
• Human society is involved in an endlessly competitive race to wealth, but with no endgame in sight. As the environment and our finite natural resources are treated as unimportant compared to the goal of accruing more wealth, this race will inevitably lead us to a point where ecological failure becomes catastrophic. 
• In the very long run global demilitarisation would remove a fundamental driver of constant competition by nation states and reorient humanity’s priorities to focus on globally consequential challenges that require international cooperation. New, global priorities including climate change pose a much larger threat to the security status of nations than any war has in history. 
• In the long term, vastly improving global cooperation through new forms of global governance is the only way to achieve lasting and thriving life on Earth.
• We are borrowing from future generations and failing in our duty to pass on the world to our descendants in the same or better conditions as we inherited it.
• The Earth is just one of hundreds of billions of spheres spinning through our galaxy, but it is the only known planet capable of supporting complex life and to which we humans are ideally suited to thrive on. We have a responsibility to ensure the preservation of our first, only and ideal home.