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   • EarthMomma
   • Gerry McGovern
   • FoolishOwl

   @LaNaehForaday @gerrymcgovern @foolishowl
   I feel the same. As naive* and depressing as it may be, I keep thinking how beautiful this planet, its plants, its life forms will be, once it's gotten rid of its most stupid species.

   * Beautiful in the eyes of whom?

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     • EarthMomma
     • Gerry McGovern

     @sebastian @LaNaehForaday @gerrymcgovern My point here is that humans *are* part of nature, and through most of human existence, our presence enriched local ecosystems. It's not humans that are the problem; it's a culture that sees itself as alienated from nature, that has existed for only centuries out of hundreds of thousands of years of human existence.

     The way we *want* to live is more sustainable than the way we are compelled to live.

     https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-a-wilderness-without-humans/

     https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02356-1