Soon, even the inner order of the seeds was captured by the science of genetics.
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What does it mean when even the seas began to live not just in the Earth but
in an Earth shaped by human consciousness?
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With their equations and their measurements,
the early scientist discovered truths none of the classical scholars had known.
In astronomy, chemistry, physiology,
humans begin to understand the word with their numbers and patterns.
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The defining characteristic of this new,
modern, form of consciousness was a decision to employ our science and
technology to control nature for our own use.
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The widespread conviction of the industrial world was that nature was
inferior to us.
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Such a world view, in which only humans have sentient feelings,
allowed all of nature to become nothing more than a resource we
could exploit in any way we wished.
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Even Rene Descartes, the most significant philosopher of the modern age,
believed that when animals made crying sounds they were not suffering,
they were simply malfunctioning machines.
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Humans are gaining control of Earth's processes.
And to what purpose?
To create a better world, to eliminate hunger, to provide for
our children, to have fun.
And to fulfill this dream we put fourth all of our energies,
all of our technologies, and with stupendous results.
In the blink of an eye, we exploded to 7 billion humans.
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The irony of it all, housing and
feeding this many humans has already gutted our oceans and forests.