ABSTRACT
One of the most urgent priorities facing human beings is to address the ideology of the exploitation of nature. This has developed over the last 200 years since the Industrial Revolution in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. The rather alarming result of our prevalent attitudes toward nature is that
If today is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rain forest, create 72 square miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy one million tons of topsoil, add twenty-seven hundred tons of CFC’s to the atmosphere, and increase their population by 263,000.
(Orr, 1992:3)