Reply #24: Interact?

[The2ndWheel]

"Nature is not some friendly fuzzy thing. Nature is death and extinction. Nature is uncaring. Nature will wipe a species out and not even notice. Nature in many ways is our enemy. We must learn about it and create ideas on how to best interact with it such that we can preserve our lives as well as the lives of those species upon which we are dependent."

If nature is death, extinction, uncaring, and our enemy, how can we interact with it? Don't we have to destroy it to preserve our lives? Don't we have to create a completely artificial world that bends to our demands?

In that one paragraph, we can see why Manifest Destiny worked so well. Why colonialism was as easy as it was. We just can't do it to people today. To grow, for progress to continue marching, something must be taken out of the way. Nature has always been a part of that, but now it's only nature that stands in the way of our ascent. I guess I'll see you on the other side, because we're not going to have a habitat much longer. Unless we cure death.