evolutionism

In the last few years I've had a burgeoning world view of something like bio-centrism.  My approach to life within this view takes into consideration the effect of my daily activity on life within our biosphere.  I buy in bulk to reduce packaging, I buy locally to reduce transport, I buy domestically made products, and make my own to reduce social injustice, I meditate to increase awareness.  I know that the way I live my life affects other life on this planet. 

And I love people.  I have such a deep appreciation in fact for each unique differentiated rare human being that in many ways I hold human life in higher regard than other forms of life on this planet.  I may not risk my life to save and individual animal, but I know that I would to save an individual human.  My empathy towards human beings is greater because I intrinsically understand the human experience of suffering.  I can relate, and quite literally feel it.  This drives my thinking to always include the human element.  It is the lens I know best and so am especially called to take into consideration a human future.  I consider our species special.  Our current human condition is an important step in our long and slow path of evolving.  We are.  In this way I hold humans above others.  It is my immutable anthropocentric nature.  I want us to keep going, I want my children to live.  I want our species to evolve to the point of vital conscious cooperation with all other life on this biosphere. 
This is where humanity meets the biosphere.  And is not in fact never separate from it.  So tied to our biosphere we are that with out it the vital gases, complex carbons, and photosynthesized sunlight that it provides us we are dust.  Non-human, non-intelligent, and indeed lifeless.  My strictly ecocentric view holds true that if we do not carefully account for our unique part in our complex system of energy, life, elements, and change that we will not understand how to be a part of the future of our universe. 
To choose between these lenses or to become aware that in fact they are nested in one another for me is a stopping point where there needn't be one.  I have a deep environmental ethic.  But there is something more.  From what I have come to understand through careful observation is that we are presently and historically individually connected to the rest of the universe of our understanding.  We are made of its stuff and in the complex interconnections between light and energy and matter and Life each movement we make through time is within the context of the whole.  And with in this expansive view I have begun to understand that what I hold above people, life, and the biosphere is the rare and beautiful living form of evolution.  Of continuing to move forward in form and connection and complexity.  I really believe that life is beautiful.  Changing.  Impermanent.  And due deep respect as a rare rise of sensitive intelligence in our solar system and beyond.