Anthropocentrism and The Environment

More than three hundred years after Spinoza recognizes that the repudiation of Geocentricism entails that of Anthropocentrism, the full implications of what can be classified as his Rational Pan-Naturalism are only slowly being realized.  For example, Anthropocentricism is implicit in Trotsky's Materialist proposition that the rest of Nature is unconditionally at the disposal of Humans.  Likewise, it is entailed in the popular concept of 'The Environment', i. e. which locates Humans in the center of its biota.  Instead, the complete elimination of vestigial Anthropocentrism yields an Ecosystem with no privileged element.  Now, one facet of such a Rational Pan-Naturalism has to date rarely been even entertained, let alone explored--the essential role of the Human Species in the system, i. e. how it affects the rest of it even when, through the careless discharge of its waste products, it is not wreaking havoc on the rest.  The limitation of Spinoza's prototype is not its scope of Human influence, but its restriction to merely Mechanistic relations.