By Barry Commoner
Discusses the technological, political, and social components contributing to environmental destruction and cites case histories which light up the ecology crisis
From bankruptcy One:
This ebook . . . starts off with the ecosphere, the environment during which civilization has performed its great--and terrible--deeds. Then it strikes to an outline of a few of the wear we now have performed to the ecosphere--to the air, the water, the soil. despite the fact that, by means of now such horror tales of environmental destruction are well-known, even tiresome. less transparent is what we have to examine from them, and so i've got selected much less to shed tears for our prior error than to aim to appreciate them. so much of this e-book is an attempt to find which human acts have damaged the circle of existence, and why. I hint the environmental trouble from its overt manifestations within the ecosphere to the ecological stresses which they mirror, to the faults in effective technology--and in its medical background--that generate those stresses, and at last to the commercial, social, and political forces that have pushed us down this self-destructive direction. All this within the hope--and expectation--that when we comprehend the origins of the environmental obstacle, we will be able to start to deal with the large venture of surviving it.
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It knows exactly what is required to bring our afflicted planet back into balance, to heal the Earth and the soul of humanity that has so painfully lost its way. And as it reawakens, this information will once again become available to us. Life is ready to teach us. Through this inner dialogue the intelligence within life can directly communicate with our intelligence and it will show us what we need to know. What life knows about itself reaches far beyond the limits of our current understanding and the scope of our present sciences.
This child also brings together the inner and the outer, spirit and matter, uniting the opposites in oneness. This child is not born of the past, not even of the ancient order of the archetypes, but has come from a totally different dimension within our self and within the cosmos. It carries a possibility that is free of many of the patterns of the past, and it also has a magic that enables things to happen in a way they have never happened before. It is alive in a completely new way, belonging to the moment that is outside of time and yet fully present.
We have simply to recognize what is most meaningful and live this in our own lives. What is meaningful has the energy and light to free us from so many imposed beliefs; for example, the belief in consumerism that feeds the greed that is destroying our planet. In the simplicity of our human values—love, and joy, and hope—we are all connected together. But we can only discover this connection when we return to this simple core of being. Otherwise we will fall apart with a world that has lost its center, a world that believes in its own advertising slogans.