The world of which I speak in the title is primarily the human world understood to be immersed in and inseparable from the biosphere as a whole. (religion-online.org)
The thought is about the biosphere as a whole and the ecosystems that make it up, not about individual creatures. (religion-online.org)
Quite different consequences follow for our relation to other animals and to the biosphere as a whole. (religion-online.org)