The preservation of Earth's biodiversity is one of the main goals of the UN's future process. This is to be achieved by maintaining a static worldview. Modern conservation also relies on balance in the natural environment, thus adhering to a static concept of ecology. Josef H. Reichholf, regarded as the enfant terrible of environmental protection, radically questions this approach. He argues that in a changing world, future goals cannot be based on conditions from yesterday or the day before. Imbalances are the driving forces of natural evolution and economic and social developments. In contrast, balances lead to stagnation; in their final form, they signify the death of all life. Our time urgently needs a departure from the conservative philosophy of ecology.