The word pact goes way back, ultimately from the proto-Indo-European root pag- meaning to fix or to make firm.
It strikes me that the pact between man and his environment has now become 'impact', and that loose fixing man used to have with nature, a fixing that did not require tightening but which revelled in its looseness, has now become so utterly sealed and unyielding as to renege on the original natural pact.
To be sure, all creatures impact, but man is the only creature to impact in an unnatural way, introducing toxicity into the lands and seas by way of his chemical and scientific (which is not conscientious) tinkering. When a beaver alters its environment it does so in a wholly natural way, even though this might include a certain devastation by way of flooding, and by extension, the killing of other plants and animals.
When man alters his environment, invariably, he does so with an unnatural hand, in other words with machines, which not only usurps man's vital energy but which usurps also and more significantly man's vital synergy with the land he seeks to destructure. The result of this is impact: an impinging of the land and its entities by man, and a loss of the natural binding that keeps man and land together.
In terms of impact, we have slavery, the earth as man's slave.
In terms of pact, we have harmony, the earth as man's better half.
We are all married whether we like it or not, and the sooner we embrace the ancient Celtic practice of marrying the land, the better for all.
http://upliftconnect.com/marrying-the-land/
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