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| h English (en) | Today “'''economic growth'''” is often used as a marker of progress and an indicator that standards of living are improving. However, the idea of economic growth is often coupled to a worldview that humans dominate and '''exploit''' nature<ref name=":6">[https://theconversation.com/humanity-and-nature-are-not-separate-we-must-see-them-as-one-to-fix-the-climate-crisis-122110 Alberro, Heather Humanity and nature are not separate – we must see them as one to fix the climate crisis]</ref>. This “worldview” is at the heart of many high-polluting nations, and many believe has its roots 400 years ago, in a time period that’s known as the '''Scientific Revolution'''. Intellectuals of the time wrote about how mankind was superior to nature<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59/59-h/59-h.htm Descartes, R. (1637). ''Discourse on the Method'']</ref>, and how it was the right of humans to dominate over nature. The ideas that were first spread around this time were extremely influential over the following centuries, and helped to inform the laws, technologies, ways of life, customs and cultures that are still present in rich countries today. Many of these ways of life have since been passed on to, or imposed on, other countries across the world. |