We are not turning our backs on mankind by turning our interests toward ecosystems. What is good for ecosystems is good for people. Our human, falsely idealistic, Big Dopamine desires, can be transformed into a different set of wishes, a new human landscape which resonate with the Ecosystem. We don’t have to work at it, or even pray at it, for prayer, like play, comes naturally when we allow ecosystems to work through us. We just have to always remind ourselves how much ecosystems are a part of us in everything we do, and in all the choices we make.
When we participate in the things that interest us, are we moving toward ecosystems or away from them? Our goals, and our ideals, are like ripe berries, and we can tell if they are moving toward ripeness or falling off into decay. Ecosystems give us an aesthetic standard: when we are moving toward them we are beautiful, and when we are falling away from them, we are sublime. The past century has been filled with sublime decay; the next century can ripen into beauty if choose to pay attention to the qualia.