Last, but not least, progress in scientific knowledge, and the use of science to correct its own one-sided development, are redefining the relationship between culture and nature that characterized the industrial era. A deep ecological consciousness is permeating the human mind and affecting the way we live, produce, consume, and perceive ourselves. We are just at the beginning of a most extraordinary cultural transformation that is reversing the course of thought that has prevailed among the world's dominant groups since the Enlightenment.