Sunday, July 26, 2015

Indeed!

CHAPTER THREE


THE HUMAN ROOTS OF THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS


101. It would hardly be helpful to describe symptoms without acknowledging the human origins of the ecological crisis. A certain way of understanding human life and activity has gone awry, to the serious detriment of the world around us. Should we not pause and consider this? At this stage, I propose that we focus on the dominant technocratic paradigm and the place of human beings and of human action in the world.