At the root of many of the environmental‎,‎ economic‎,‎ and social crises we face today is a legal system based on an outdated and ultimately destructive worldview‎.‎ In this groundbreaking book‎,‎ bestselling author‎,‎ physicist‎,‎ and systems theorist Fritjof Capra and distinguished legal scholar Ugo Mattei show how‎,‎ by incorporating concepts from modern science‎,‎ the law can be updated to reflect a more accurate view of how the world works and become a progressive force‎.‎ Capra and Mattei trace the fascinating parallel history of law and science to show how the two disciplines have always influenced each other ‎- until recently‎.‎ Science now sees the world as being made up of interconnected networks‎.‎ But law is stuck in a mechanistic‎,‎ 17th century paradigm that views the world as discrete individual parts‎.‎ This has led to a disregard for the health of the whole ‎- for example‎,‎ elevating the rights of individual property owners over the good of the community‎.‎ But Capra and Mattei outline the basic concepts and structures of a legal order consistent with the ecological principles that sustain life on this planet‎.‎