It is not possible to understand the apparent stability of the Earth's
climate and environment unless we can fully understand how the best
possible environmental conditions may be maintained for life to exist.
Human colonization of areas with natural biota, for industrial or
agricultural activities, will lead to degradation of those natural
communities and violation of the BRE (biotic regulation of the
environment) principle.
Thus to maintain an environment on Earth that is suitable for life it is
necessary to preserve and allow the natural recovery of natural biotic
communities, both in the oceans and on land. This book is devoted to a
quantitative version of the BRE concept, and is built on a foundation of
modern scientific knowledge accumulated in the fields of physics and
biology.