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ecosphere within which they live without having to deal with feelings of compassion,
sadness, or gratitude. This group is ruthless, i.e., devoid of any feelings in its
interactions with the earth. (Note that “ruthless” here is not used in its negative
sense but in a completely neutral sense.) This particular group has been responsible
for much of the scientific advancement enjoyed by people living during the latter
half of the 20th century including better nutrition, medicine/ surgery, improved
communication/ information systems, etc. Although much good has come out of
this faction of mankind, not all discoveries have been good. The group with its lack
of compassion for the environment has been responsible for many of the ecological
crises of the age, and as a result, many individuals are currently in search of a
worldview which will prove to be less damaging to the environment and which
will result in fewer feelings of guilt or shame for the individual. Remember the
Valdez/ Hazelwood incident in Alaska? DDT? Asbestos? Thorazine, thalidomide,
and the first polio vaccines which resulted in psychoses, birth defects and comas,
respectively? Chemical fertilizer? CFC’s? Our modern interaction with the earth
has also shown similar damaging results.
Many from the scientific community are beginning to shift their views slightly.
The scientific theory called the “systems theory” states basically that individual
components do not exist independent of one another but belong instead to a system
or a matrix and that the relationships between the components are just as important
as the components themselves. A human body, for example, is made up of billions
of individual cells and can be even further subdivided into molecules and further
into atoms, but to study the human body, one must take into consideration how all
these parts interact with one another. The second way of looking at earth, then, is
as a single organism which expresses itself as billions of life forms.
People who buy into this theory subscribe, generally, to the Gaia Matrix Theory
as first outlined and explored by James Lovelock or belong to one of the many
so-called “Earth-Religions” which are really branches of the pervasive New Age movement.
Actually, it is not uncommon to find folk who accept both these worldviews
by blending them together. These folk, as opposed to the first group, do not act
in a ruthless manner, but out of compassion, concern, and even love. They see the
earth as a single “living” system where any manipulation of individual parts results
in changes throughout the entire system. Many of the 20th century advances in
ecology, holistic medicine, anthropology, psychology, etc. are a direct result of this
age-old way of viewing the earth upon which we live. This view of the planet as
the “Earth Mother” has been around for possibly 10-20 millennia and seems to go
through periods of renewal occasionally. The number of 21st century adherents to
this group appears to be growing quickly.
The third theory states that the earth itself is part of an even larger system. Some