HUMAN RELATIONSHIP TO NATURE

the Progress Ethic that created the world we live in, the biblically-inspired Stewardship Ethic which aims to balance human dominion over nature with our responsibility to care for it, and the Connection Ethic rooted in scientific understanding of the interdependency of all natural entities, among which humans have no special claim. Yet critical analysis reveals that none of these is able to justify or sustain the values it holds dear. These problems have a common root in two unsupportable presumptions