Reverential administration

Since ancient times, and especially over the past several centuries  the growth of the marketplace, along with the technological and industrial revolution that attends and propels that growth, accelerated the demand for chemical energy to faciliate the transportation of goods between markets. The marketplace also facilitated the increase in the volume of waste that attends the growth in consumption that results from the increase in industrial and technological scale and power. The natural environmental context in which the market operates becomes stressed, possibly beyond repair, by the market-based strategies the past several hundred years have introduced into the world's civilizations. 

Modernity is on a collision course with the environment, and we need a better understanding of the human responsibilities that come with Man's dominance and stewardship over that natural environment. We need to honor the heirarchy of Man both relative to those divine powers above him (Who might, and often do, place a claim on the disposition of that natural environment) and those mundane resources below him, animate and inanimate (who have no direct power to resist Man's unsustainable exploitation), to devise wise policies for the reverential administration of the planet.