Man will now have to decide more than ever whether to cut the branch that supports him on the tree of life.
The general notion which dominated in many societies during the past saw nature as a stable reality defining human life. Man conformed with
nature’s insuperable power instead of seeking to adjust this power to
his needs. The man of the 20th towards nature, wanting to extract its
secrets, abuse its sources and subdue from most dangerous
manifestations. Man pays the price of his arrogant will to become
master, not only of our planet, but of the entire universe. My
responsibility embraces not only the people of our time, but also those
of tomorrow, those who haven’t even yet been born. My responsibility stands in between my freedom as a human being and the innate value of a
living reality claiming of me its continuity of existence. century,
though, was becoming more and more aggressive.