Ecosystems and Systematics

Abstract

“The ecological emergency of our day has reopened the cosmological argument. … To imply that ecology is the matrix of a new systematics, as the Gothic image and the Elizabethan chain were in their time, may seem an extravagant conceit. But if ecological predictions of the immediate future are justified … we may have no choice about the contextual situation in which future deliberations in any area are to be pursued.”