Social Science: spectacles broken !

I think the French word for it is "boulverser" - turning everything upside down. That's how I often feel when I reflect on the relationship between me/humanity and the environment/climate change/animal kind. A blog post by the Australian Clive Hamilton challenges me still more in this whole disturbing area of how do I see the world ?

He says the social sciences (which were such a big part of my further education) are no more and "we can no longer separate the natural from the human and place some events into the box marked “Nature” and some into the box marked “Human”. The modern social sciences—sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history and, we may add, philosophy—rest on the assumption that the grand and the humdrum events of human life take place against a backdrop of an inert nature.

Our history can no longer be thought of as the actions of great men or women but will need to be seen afresh: all is entwined together. I can just about see that I have seen the world, and Christian faith, through a very human pair of spectacles. That way of seeing has got us into a climate change mess, and -as he says - has brought us into the age where every bit of the earth is impacted by human activity, so much so that it brings to an end the Holocene age of 10,000 years of climate stability.

To change the way I see the world isn't going to be easy !