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There is a pointless argument between economists and ecologists over which crisis is more important - the ecosphere or the economy? The materialist answer is that their fates are interlinked. We know the natural world only by interacting with it and transforming it: nature produced us that way. Even if, as some supporters of 'deep ecology' argue , the earth would be better off without us, it is to us that the task of saving it falls.