The inner mental and emotional behavior of the human being is currently reflected in the outer destruction of our environment. The construction of a factory chimney is different from that of a stalk of wheat. The force with which a blade of grass penetrates a layer of asphalt is not the same used by a jackhammer. The process that produces a seedling which gradually grows into a mature plant follows a different logic than that currently used by homo sapiens. Earth can only awaken from its nightmare if we develop a society free of the structural violence currently found in mechanistic science, dogmatic religions, ideological ecology, and industrial technology based on overcoming resistance rather than establishing resonance with Nature.
Animals are part of the living organism of the biosphere.
Like us, they are animated beings, only at a different level of evolution. We cannot develop an overall concept of non-violence as long as we walk around in fur coats. We cannot feed the universal biocomputer with credible information on peace as long as we send out information of violence from every slaughterhouse. It does not break down from outside intervention, but from internal conflict. It will not be healed by outside intervention, either, but from the spiritual, mental, and emotional processes that result in resonance with the universal circulation of matter, energy, and information.