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Global Spirit
Sacred Ecology
Season 2
Episode 209
With global warming on the rise and the number of animal species now declining at alarming rates, are humans trapped in a never-ending destructive cycle fed by ever-increasing desires? Or do our most serious environmental problems stem in part from our very concept or understanding of “self”? Are our human notions of “ecology” or of “the sacred” blind to nature’s fundamental laws and truths?
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