IT WAS E. F. SCHUMACHER who said that we are at war with nature, and that if we ever won the war we would discover that we are on the losing side. The war is an unwitting one, and the main idea that drives it is the notion that the Earth and her tangled web of life forms, rocks, atmosphere and ocean are nothing more than a machine-like collection of insensate resources that have value only when they are extracted and converted into products for sale in the global marketplace.
Clearly, if we are to make peace with nature, we desperately need a new story, a new mythos that allows us to revere the ...
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