Material Happiness And Its Limits In The View Of Ecological Civilization

Material happiness is a kind of happiness, that is to say, happiness is material life.It’s the person’s physical needs, desires, purpose, and including food, clothing, shelter, line, etc. The basic material condition for happiness of life. They fulfilled its highest performance is rich life and body health. Relative to spiritual happiness and human happiness, material happiness belongs to the lowest level of happiness, but the material happiness is the starting point of human happiness, and spiritual happiness. If there is no material happiness well-being, other happiness is impossible. Materialists believe that material life is the foundation of a happy life, the pursuit of happiness life, material living conditions should be the basic guarantee. So happiness is not a substance can be far away from the natural conditions and purely subjective generated by the contents, the feelings of happiness is built on the object to obtain satisfy demand. In general, the satisfactory of happiness and the index will be accompanied by the improvement of material conditions and rich material life and ascension.However, the process of human pursuit of material happiness is closely connected to the survival of the natural environment. Human is living in the environment, everyone is a part of nature. So without the environment, the pursuit of obtain material happiness cannot exist. If the environment is not good enough to live, human happiness is impossible. Before the founding of new China, many experience makes the people in The Times of famine will have surplus material happiness aimed at home. With the opening of the society, the fusion of China and the world, more and more Chinese people with open eyes and international comparative perspective to observe the change of the contemporary China, and more and more wealthy Chinese entered the stage of the pursuit of material consumption deformity of consumption idea, such as a variety of consumerism, materialism, luxury, materialization and alienation of material such as false needs happiness began to more and more widely, more and more profoundly affect our living environment. Due to excessive pursuit of material enjoyment, satisfaction of pleasure and desire of the flesh and led to the alienation of material happiness, causing the destruction of the natural environment and ecological crisis.The emergence of ecological crisis has the effect of natural factors, but much more effect is from man-made, crisis of human nature is the fundamental cause of ecological crisis, how to deal with the environmental crisis facing humanity and living predicament of the resulting is one of the major problems of our times, can be in harmony with nature, so as to achieve the happiness of life is a great wishes of the people, people began to call the ecological civilization, generated for a person to nature, to the human and the nature harmonious unification in essence.Today we should called for the construction of ecological civilization strongly, environmental protection, and to wage war on pollution And it has become the most important works of the party and the state, so our human beings must pay the action of important work immediately. So we must be allow to pursuit of material needs within the limits of ecological civilization, namely the pursuit of material happiness should keep ecological balance,and the realization of the scale, material happiness with material transformation for the path, enjoying happiness material to be on the premise of environment friendly and adhere to the principles of sustainable development. The principle of environmental justice, the principle of appropriateness, full of human nature to do the natural world, in the pursuit of material happiness and ecological environment finally, coordinated with the requirement of ecological civilization, environmental damages and the destruction of their homes for selfish interests is forbidden.