Over the past twenty years, Gernot Bohme has played a leading role in the contemporary renaissance of German 'Naturphilosophie', or "natural philosophy", in the guise of a new Critical Theory of social-natural relations, interweaving (post-)Marxist social theory and the New Phenomenology of the contemporary German philosopher, Hermann Schmitz. Bohme's project is underwritten by a sober recognition that "we no longer stand on the brink of environmental catastrophe: we are in the midst of it." Under these historically unprecedented circumstances, the old question of how humans are to live well as such on this earth and under this sky acquires a whole new dimension. Picking up a resonant expression from Ernst Bloch, Bohme insists that although the global environment might everywhere bear traces of human impact, far from consigning "nature" to the past, we should reconceptualise it as a yet-to-be realised possibility that as yet lies before us (Die Natur vor uns). To realise this possibility would entail the transformation of our industrially degraded earthly environment into a humane living space, in which a decent life might be enjoyed by all and in which a wide diversity of other-than-human beings too might thrive, together with the limitation of the technologisation of the body to levels that we, individually, deem compatible with human dignity: with that dignity, that is to say, which is proper to humans, not so much in contradistinction from animals and God or gods, as in the past, but rather, from machines, technological things of our own making.