The new Vice-President argues that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature can save the earth's ecology for future generations. In Earth In The Balance published by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992, Gore says one of our major problems is the Platonic assumption, adopted by most of the world's major religions, that humans are separate from the world of nature. Gore makes a strong plea for us to recognize that we are not put on this earth supernaturally but rather we are part of the natural world and we have a responsibility to protect and enhance that relationship. He says as long as people see themselves as separate from the earth they will find it easy to devalue the earth. He also cites the population explosion as "the clearest single example of the dramatic change in the overall relationship between the human species and the earth's ecological system."

I was excited to realize that we now have a Vice-President of the United States promoting basic humanism!

--Flo Wineriter