- traditional ideologies think humans are the masters of the natural world and treat nature like an economic resource
- humans need to learn that they are part of the natural world, not the masters
- natural world has to be understood as a whole - Smuts
- each part only has importance in relation to other parts
- Science commits the sin of reductionism
- but...quantum theory sees the physical world as a network of systems
- many greens are attracted to eastern mysticism which expresses ecological wisdom and compassion for fellow things
- In Christianity, humans are seen as God's stewards
- James Lovelock developed Gaia, that the Earth is a living entity
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