Jeremy Lent, pictured above, describes himself as an "Author and Integrator." Among other things, Lent produces periodic postings on a Substack blog that he titles, "Ecocivilization." On May 8, 2026, Lent's blog posting posed this question: "Is A New Copernican Revolution Already Underway?" Let's hope so, says Lent! Our human survival may well depend on such a (yet unrealized) "paradigm shift."
The "Copernican Revolution" was a very significant change in perspective. As Copernicus proved, the Earth is not the center of the universe, as had been assumed, with the sun, the planets, and everyting else rotating about it. Quite the contrary! What an irony, says Lent:
The same scientific worldview that displaced Earth from the center of the universe placed “Man” at the center of the living world—as nature’s supreme conqueror and its rightful master. The very methods that revealed our planet’s cosmic insignificance were used to establish something else: the principle that nature exists primarily as a resource for human use, a complicated machine whose mechanisms can be deciphered and controlled by human endeavor. One decentering gave birth to another, far more consequential, centering—and we are still living inside it.
To put this in slightly different words (my words), we live, ultimately, in the "World of Nature," or in the "World That God Created." Any claim to "human supremacy" in that world is fundamentally wrong, and our acceptance of the proposition that human beings are able to do whatever they want to do, as "masters of the world," will lead, inevitably, to human demise - if we are talking about the "World of Nature." Global Warming, often called "Climate Change," is one example. Many are starting to realize how high the stakes really are.
Having said that about the "World of Nature," I do continue to insist on my "Two Worlds" hypothesis, which holds that while we are ultimately subject to the laws and requirements of the "World of Nature," we live most immediately in a human world that we create ourselves. The problem is, we underrate our ability to create any kind of world we choose, within that "Political World" which we most immediately inhabit, at the same time that we fail to understand the limits imposed on us in the "World of Nature."
If you read my blog postings with any regularity, you will already know that I am in agreement with the warning that Lent has authored in his own blog posting. I am just saying it one more time - and am providing you a link to what Lent has to say about our human misconceptions, and where they are taking us!
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