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We did that, realized it was a mistake, and have started placing emphasis on working around nature, instead of tearing it down because it's more convenient.
by dx87 6y ago
We did that, realized it was a mistake, and have started placing emphasis on working around nature, instead of tearing it down because it's more convenient.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoin the west, yes. In the places where real nature still exists; no, everyone's still happy to tear it down for convenience. evidence: Brazil's rainforest. Indonesian palm oil. Chinese mines. African, well, everything.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI sometimes think the West overestimates how convenient or cohabitable nature is, because they were born into a tamed version of it. For most of human history, nature has been trying to kill us (if that's too anthropomorphic, we can go with the longer-form "The processes of nature are ambivalent to the survival of our species and individuals in that species, and there is no guarantee that the natural world is one habitable by humanity. Our species' history is shot through with plagues, floods, famines, and predation, and much of our technology was created to minimize that.")