Human ecology is a representation of our position within a reality .
In some ways this is a contradictory position. On the one hand, ecology is a small branch of human knowledge. On the other, ecology describes the interactions of animals and plants while considering humans as being animals. Perhaps animals with highly developed forms of communication and social behaviour, but animals in terms of our needs to breathe, to stay at a comfortable temperature, to drink, to eat, and to predict the actions required to acheive any of these things. The problems of representation can be looked at from linguistic or mathematical positions.