A single, unforgettable image comes to mind when we ponder human origins: a crouching ape slowly standing and morphing into a tall,
erect human male poised to conquer every bit of habitable land on this planet.
The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a
male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as
human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy
erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).