However, in the recent centuries biodiversity has suffered great damages and living species are disappearing at unprecedented speed, which is fundamentally caused by traditional Western ideas, such as the natural teleology of ancient Greece, divine teleology of Christianity and the mechanistic and atomistic natural philosophy. 但自近现代以来,生物多样性遭受了巨大破坏,正以前所未有的速度丧失。西方古希腊自然目的论、基督教的神学目的论以及机械原子论自然观等,是造成这种丧失的根源。