Nature in the image of man demands a meaning for evolution that transcends the meaning of evolution by ordinary processes. We must see species and niches as "resources" to be conserved, of course, for our own accounts. We want an evolution that is constructive and progressive and never regressive or destructive by our standards, although we cannot control the quality and quantity of the generative energy flow or will only good accidents outside society or inside.

Harm reduction, conservation, etc. is never specified as net, positive, or global improvement: The logic of the model of the environment cannot account for changes to the environment outside the model by its processes, but its proponents leave dangling such an implication. Thus a local improvement is traded for a global degradation; when the degradation shows in other spots, the remediation is intensified and extended.

Conservation, harm reduction require a maximal discount of value of the environment--the model is all.