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Humanity is nature and natural, everything we produce and do is literally just a transformation of something that already exists. What's the difference between

Humanity is nature and natural, everything we produce and do is literally just a transformation of something that already exists. What's the difference between the honey created by bees and the nuclear waste of a nuclear reactor? If you get rid of the pro-not-human narrative there is none.

wordyskeleton 4y ago
not sure the nuclear waste tastes nearly as good, for one
ChatGTP 4y ago
It should be quite clear to you that on this Earth, at the level of the biosphere, there is nothing except humans that produce radioactive waste. We are the only species that does something so dangerous. It's a problem because it contaminates and destroys the biosphere if it's not handled extremely carefully and there are no organisms which can compost such waste in any useful way. So it's unnatural. Plastic is another unbelievably horrible man made concoction which is absolutely destroying the natural world due to poor handling. Since plastic waste and nuclear waste aren't food for other organisms, or don't naturally break down, they're not materials that belong in the natural environment. The is the same environment from which you come from, owe everything too, and which you're still totally and utterly dependent on for your survival. Hopefully that's a good answer... By the way, I used to share your beliefs, that it's all the same, it's all "natural", but I just can't keep up the mental charades anymore. Our intellect and creativity is an important part of our short-term survival, but thus far it's been massively destructive and I can't see that changing anytime soon.
- orange_fritter 4y ago
  There have been many innovative organisms that produced an "unnatural" material. The earth was covered in a huge, dense, undecayed layer of dead tree matter before bacteria eventually evolved to break it down... 60 million years later. It's now coal.

wordyskeleton 4y ago

not sure the nuclear waste tastes nearly as good, for one

ChatGTP 4y ago

It should be quite clear to you that on this Earth, at the level of the biosphere, there is nothing except humans that produce radioactive waste. We are the only species that does something so dangerous. It's a problem because it contaminates and destroys the biosphere if it's not handled extremely carefully and there are no organisms which can compost such waste in any useful way. So it's unnatural. Plastic is another unbelievably horrible man made concoction which is absolutely destroying the natural world due to poor handling. Since plastic waste and nuclear waste aren't food for other organisms, or don't naturally break down, they're not materials that belong in the natural environment. The is the same environment from which you come from, owe everything too, and which you're still totally and utterly dependent on for your survival. Hopefully that's a good answer... By the way, I used to share your beliefs, that it's all the same, it's all "natural", but I just can't keep up the mental charades anymore. Our intellect and creativity is an important part of our short-term survival, but thus far it's been massively destructive and I can't see that changing anytime soon.

orange_fritter 4y ago
There have been many innovative organisms that produced an "unnatural" material. The earth was covered in a huge, dense, undecayed layer of dead tree matter before bacteria eventually evolved to break it down... 60 million years later. It's now coal.