Beanster/John, I use this article all the time in environmental studies: "environment" is another pretty good term for larger context. Our planetary situation is one in which we have developed extraordinary powers of local so-called "rational" control over our own practices, but on the larger scale it can be seen that this "control model" is driving the planet crazy, into wild swings, simply because we are unwilling to give up this need to dominate and rationalise, and recognise that we are within the larger natural world, which works according to quite different "larger" principles. yours, Peter