The fate of our planet does not depend on reducing the environmental impact of American lawn mowers, but it does depend (very much) on us understanding the forces that oppose it: forces which give economics (the household of man) priority over ecology (the household of our planet).

 

We have to recognise that the socio-economic environment in which we are totally immersed, familiar with and dependent on, is itself totally dependent on the natural environment. Otherwise we will perish.

 

If we fail to create a sustainable economy and way of life (for 7-9 billion! people), a ruthless mother nature, who is already "warming up" for the job, will do it for us.