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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Fabs OP 6 Jan \ parent \ on: Why hasn't humanity overcome their tribalistic nature? Ask_SN

Humans as part of "nature" is a foregone concept- and it's reflected by the very way we live nowadays.

We don't live "in" or "with" nature anymore, but in giant landscapes of steel and concrete.

We don't respect nor protect nature anymore- we take as much of it as we can, and than a little.

Without technology, our species would face certain death- not as a whole, but most.

And yes, there are exemptions, but those don't weigh-up in the slightest against the norm.

What is unnatural about technology and the structures we build? Birds build nests, some animals dig tunnels. Human construct buildings and cities. Are humans not part of this nature you speak of?

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Fabs OP 6 Jan

Those things are short term and play a part in the ecosystem, our mega-cities constructed with materials which will last for hundreds of years (and some practically forever) are not.

If anything, they destroy existing ecosystems.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @TNStacker 6 Jan

Is that also not the nature of things? Ever witnessed how a single beaver can influence an ecosystem? I have seen one beaver flood a field affecting the homes and lives of countless animals.

I think you make my point. Or I yours.

10 sats \ 5 replies \ @Fabs OP 6 Jan

It's about the scales, my man.

What is a field compared to even a small village nowadays?!

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @TNStacker 6 Jan

I am not asking you to compare. I am asking your to use imagination and interpolative or extrapolative thought