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Modernity
This paradigm is based on a core value i.e. that of the ever-growing development of technologies and artefacts that are carried out by the "Engineering Creation". The different types of energies are the main way to keep these artefacts going. The natural environment is thought to provide machines with the necessary energy and it is also regarded as something that has to be replaced by artificial spaces.

Tradition
This paradigm is based on the balance of three dimensions: Human Beings, Nature and Sacredness. The three of them constitute an indissoluble yet diverse and distinc Unity. Those cultures on which this paradigm is based, have a core value consisting of an attempt to maintain a continuous balance among the three dimensions. Artefacts that have been designed by humankind together with energies they consum remain subordinated to the core balance of the three dimensions. Nature is regarded as the environment which gives way to life as well as any type of energy. Nature has to be respected and cared. Under no circumstances should it be destroyed or generally replaced by any other environment. Spiritual, mental and corporeal energies have an harmonic relation with other energies from productive cycles (whether natural or artificial).