Those are very deep philosophical questions that you don't have to tackle on your own. Now, western philosophy is not much help on those questions, but you can

Those are very deep philosophical questions that you don't have to tackle on your own. Now, western philosophy is not much help on those questions, but you can look at the buddhist concepts of samsara, the cyclical nature of existence, and also the concept of dependent origination, which states that all phenomenas happens in relation to one another. When you take those 2 concepts together (if we omit the third concept of karma), it draws an image of an universe always changing, but incrementally, so every action us humans take to counter nature, whatever nature is here, a virus etc, the future will be slightly modified by our actions, and also more resistant to those same actions (because it integrates our past actions). > When we look from 30,000 meters above the ground, things don't really change, do they? Now again buddhism tell us that there's no observer or observed objects, they're just illusions created by our unenlightened minds when we can't see how things are really in constant motion. I hope you don't mind the digression, it's just that imo, buddhist have a really refined point of view on the nature of reality and change that I thought sharing here could be beneficial to the discussion.