and i think in this regard, something like rachel carson's flashingnt spring, a yellow light. time, this environmental awareness evolved into a stronger sense of the interdependence of all things and took on a more spiritualized sensibility. to me this is a long story. it has to do with the beginnings of religious traditions starting to engage environment issues. 1960's.more belay particularly in response to the essay that lynn white did on the religious roots of our ecological crisis. that was not initially the sensibility of the counterculture as i see most of it. i would also note in this regard, that at least some of counterculturehe and particularly in the later part of the 60's, part of the appeal of eastern religions was driven by the perception that these traditions offered a more benign view of the human relationship with the natural world. you want to know why people were attracted to eastern religions. 10 reasons. here's one. these views, these eastern views. were not as exploitive. there were not characterized by a theology of anthropocentrism. that's the human per