Everybody talks these days about the ecological crisis, while the media make frequent reference to a worsening ecological crisis, the deterioration of the Environment and imminent ecological disasters. No one can of course dispute the extent and seriousness of this crisis, which has become an integral part of the general multidimensional crisis of our times (political, social and economic).However, few are seriously concerned over another crisis, equally severe and equally frightening in extent and in consequences: the biological crisis. It should be noted at this point that I find it difficult to include the biological crisis in the ecological crisis, inasmuch as ecology in the usual sense of the word mainly deals with the Environment and its deterioration and has very little to so with the biology of the human being. According, however, to a broader sense, which we will introduce in this essay, the biological crisis could be said to be part of the ecological crisis in that both are basically created by environmental factors, as a result of the concentration of the economic and political power during the neoliberal phase of the internationalised market economy. Generally speaking, the biological crisis is part of the broader ecological crisis, inasmuch as man constitutes an integral part of the ecosystem. As it is well known, Ecology, being a branch of Biology, is concerned with the ecosystem and investigates the interaction of the organisms (plants, animals and human beings) with their environment, and the consequences of the normal and abnormal relations among them.
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