Perception and Environment

According to Ecologism, an Organism is inherently in interaction with its Environment--either adapting to it, or adapting from it.  On that basis, Perception is either an Adaptation-To or an Adaptation-Of or -From.  Thus, for example Locke's Empiricist concept of Primary Quality, which is a copy of something in the Environment, is the product of Adaptation-To.  So, his concept of Secondary Quality is, in itself, signifies a detachment of an Organism from its Environment.  That detachment is further developed in Berkeley' Phenomenalism, and Hume's Skepticism, but without any Environmental consequences.  So, the first suggestion of such consequences is implied by Smith, according to whom an Invisible Hand mediates the interaction with their Environment of Organisms, whose profit-motive remains otherwise insular.  Two centuries later, those consequences have become more fully visible, as the detachment is expressed as indifference to Environmental destruction in the pursuit of profits.  Nor is the standard opposition to such carelessness free of the Empiricist tradition--the locution 'the environment', no matter how caringly expressed, still entails an Organism-Environment separation that, reifying both, only perpetuates the fundamental alienation.