Introduction: Western civilization is akin to cancers metastasizing throughout the biosphere. In contrast, untold generations of indigenous peoples have honored and continue to respect Mother Earth in ways far less destructive of land, air, water, and fellow creatures.
British Petroleum's oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico typifies western civilization's culture and its effects on Mother Earth.
An essay by Naomi Klein calls attention to modernity's increasingly tragic flaw: a deliberately contrived, intellectually enforced distancing of human concerns from Nature, from what many have called Mother Earth and have understood as a living organism ("Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world" here or here).
A more specific calling attention to indigenous wisdom is presented in Glenn A. Parry's essay, "Native Wisdom in a Quantum World" (here).