Some people celebrate that humans were able to “overcome nature” (modulo destroying it as a habitable place for ourselves), i.e. could live basically anywhere w

Some people celebrate that humans were able to “overcome nature” (modulo destroying it as a habitable place for ourselves), i.e. could live basically anywhere with the help of technology.[1] I think though that it might have been better for us (again, modulo The Earth) if we had become constrained by natural forces outside of ourselves (predators, other forces of nature) so that we couldn't do that. Because we are now—and have been for all the thousands of years of advanced human organization—the biggest threats to ourselves (wars, class society, subjugation). And although what we might call lower forms of life can be cruel—like a school(?) of orcas playing with their prey—nothing in nature can be as cruel to a human being with knowing intent as other human beings. [1] And I reject those that claim that we “cheat” nature by using tools and technology (referring to e.g. people who claim that hunters “cheat” by using advanced weapons and tools); those things are a vital extension of us. Humans without technology would be like polar bears without ice sheets.