The conditions for life itself
Someone told me the other day (I have a feeling it was Andy Middleton) that the biologist Janine Benyus (whose thing is biomimicry) said that what life does is create the conditions for life itself (maybe it was in her TED talk?). Yet according to Paul Hawken (and plenty of others) every major living system on the planet is in decline as a result of human activity. So what exactly are we doing I wonder, and what kind of life are we, that we are creating the conditions where other life is more difficult?