ABSTRACT

Please keep in mind as you read the text that what we are doing to our environment in the name of “management” is really a peek into our human inner workings, the cause behind our environmental crises brought about largely by our institutionalized resistance to change. It can be summed up as “the need to know and the fear of knowing.” Whether we like it or not, we now have the technological capability to disarrange and disarticulate the entire global ecosystem. Thus, for the survival of human society as we know it, we must face ourselves, as uncomfortable as it may be, and we must help one another to confront our human failings and our blind spots. We must be willing to risk changing our thinking and our behavior and get back in touch with our repressed feelings, our exiled intuition, and our lost wisdom.