The sense of communion with the divine, once horizontal and concrete, anchored to a spiritual connection to the natural world to which we and all living creatures belong, turned vertical and abstract, anchored instead to the supernatural notion of heavens above, the realm of God, detached from the human condition, from the hardships of a

Life is matter with purpose, with an urge to exist.

With no gods to protect it, Nature was desacralized to become a commodity, an object to be exploited for capital gain.

There is no God’s-eye view of the world, at least not for our human eyes. We are bound to see the world from within the confines of our minds and bodies.

What had up to then been a rigid duality of the known and the unknowable when describing the natural world cracked open to give rise to a third possibility: the unknown, encompassing that which could be probed and understood through rational discourse, expanding the realm of the possible.

There is no “us” without the biosphere. And without us, the biosphere doesn’t know it exists, doesn’t have a voice.

Newton’s theism—a God present at all times—gave way to deism—an absent God whose role was relegated to that of creator of the Universe and its laws.

in Nature and our impact on this planet and its biosphere. To enact change, we need to start by telling a new story. This book is my attempt to propose a post-Copernican worldview that realigns humanity with the natural world. The core principle behind this new worldview is biocentrism, the idea that a living planet is a sacred realm that deserves

Tectonics work as a global thermostat, recycling chemicals that help regulate the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and keep the global temperature stable.