Published in Gaya and Culture Conference Toscana, 2001
In this presentation the theme Gaya and Culture is looked at from an evolutionary perspective and placed in the context of a duality that is inherently interconnected. It is argued that present day emphasis on technology and economy in Western culture may have caused a trend towards radical distinctions between economy and ecology, between culture and nature and between other dualities that actually exist by the grace of each other. Reconnecting these dualities is a challenging task to be fulfilled in the 21st century. It is a precondition for a sustainable development of human society on our planet. The planetary dimension of the sustainable development issues can be illustrated by a great number of international initiatives that emerged in recent decades in order to interconnect individual, local, national activities with global effects, (see illustration 1)
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(Re)connecting dualities