From a paper I wrote a while back entitled Paradigms Lost on world issues:
"We are not able to destroy the Earth, but we have the power to destroy or save ourselves. Before nature casts us out of existence just as Adam and eve were cast out of paradise, we need to examine our current paradigms and doctrines. If we would like to live in harmony with nature, we first need to learn how to live in harmony with ourselves. The fall of the Berlin wall symbolized that all barriers to unity, however formidable, whether physical or ideological, can ultimately be dismantled.