Letters to the Editor
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"Sense of Awe"
"By restoring our sense of awe about the Earth, and our connectedness to it, Weisman takes us out of the merely political and into a deeper realm."
That, I believe, is the crux of the environmental debate. Western society, unfortunately, was saddled with some seriously off-kilter baggage when ol' Yahweh handed us the earth on a platter.
As others have stated here and elsewhere, the world could be just fine with people among its residents. In fact, it did quite well for an awful long time until we started breeding like rabbits and filling every damn niche we could find (after pushing out or ripping up whatever might have been there first).
But we've got to get over this "dominion over the earth" business and redefine ourselves as just one more cog in a very complex machine. Otherwise...