Klein sums up the matter nicely: "And this is surely the strangest twist in the Gulf coast saga: it seems to be waking us up to the reality that the Earth never was a machine. After 400 years of being declared dead, and in the middle of so much death, the Earth is coming alive."
Our world is being run by a small elite of very wealthy people who control the Banks and the Multinational corporations. These people are using physical, psychological and social technologies to further their own desires for increased profits as the expense of the rest of us. In the short run we must do everything within our power to bring them under control. But success in the long run will require a profound re-assessment of who we are in relation to the rest of creation. A central part of this re-assessment will have to be a re-thinking of the nature of the technologies by which we negotiate our relationships with the rest of a living universe.
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