Once you narrrow the focus to "Human Ecology" and use it as an umbrella for the political/religious/moral themes of the book then it does come down to a disagreement over semantics. I would still disagree with using it as a stated tehme because it reaches for too much and obscures what I consider teh "real themes" of the novel unless the express purpose is to tie all the human elements into a nice package, while seeriously delving into all of its sub-units; more of the heading to a review/critique than a point of the review itself. Though where the Eart Day comment fits into it I still don't understand.



The statement may have been made, but it is not accurate. Christianity and Islam spun off of Judidism and that evolved from, or replaced (documentation gets REAL sketchy as to which), a polytheistic religion. The desert/stepes obsercation breaks down becasue all 3 are from the same religious tree. Perhaps that is why there has been such hostility for the last 3,000 years between them; but that is an entirely different conversation that belongs nowhere near this site.