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Preface
We live in an age of marvels. Electronics has made us a global village; the
Hubble can enable us to see to the beginning of time itself; we can pinpoint
our location through satellite navigation systems and hold encyclopedias
on a microchip.
We can do all these things, and yet something is radically wrong, terribly
wrong. We keep polluting our magnificent home with the rancid waste
from our chemical and petroleum industries, despoiling our planet and
ourselves for the evanescent glory of the bottom line. We imbalance the
most delicate of balances to conform with the logic of a system that is, to
put it charitably, horribly out of whack.
Face it: Our entire global immune system is breaking down before our
very eyes. Cancer, the defining disease of our time, inexorably increases
in virulence, claiming millions of people every year; our climate is
becoming more extreme with each passing season; and we seem to be losing
the battle with the mighty virus as we breed it into our foodstuffs, our
vaccines, and ourselves. Our antibiotics have helped to breed new super
strains of bacteria that eat antibiotics for breakfast. Our vaunted educational
systems produce graduates with great erudition in inconsequential
matters, while illiteracy rises and the incompetent prevail.
And all the while nations become increasingly violent to each other as
well as to themselves. The very worst role models are emulated, as some vestigial
third brain reptile territoriality takes hold of our collective consciousness,
selling itself as "free market economics" or some such nonsense.
In the immortal words of the Chinese curse, we have all been born into
"interesting times."
Looking back over the past 100 years or so, when the industrial engine
really began to get serious about eating the planet, it is tempting to ask
whether or not the results really needed to have happened. Is there something
fundamentally wrong with the human experiment, some genetic
flaw, some cosmic misunderstanding that has made all this somehow