Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
So if I'm understanding him correctly, a "revolution of love" involves reverting to a sort of nature-worship that requires treating everything everywhere as sacred and near inviolate? I don't see much room for civilization in that view of the world.
And some might argue that's not a bad thing.

Civilizations are organized in densely populated settlements divided into hierarchical social classes with a ruling elite and subordinate urban and rural populations, which engage in intensive agriculture, mining, small-scale manufacture and trade. Civilization concentrates power, extending human control over the rest of nature, including over other human beings.[Wikipedia]