With all the talk of climate change, and with the supposed recycling of waste that now gets done, we think we are environmentalists now.
The reality is many of our industries as literally at war with nature.
Agriculture drenches the environment in poisons, slaughters wild animals by the million, ruins waterways, and destroys native bushland.
Other resource-based industries are similarly brutal and destructive.
This is justified under the banner of necessity. But is it really?
Do we really need to be at war with nature to live comfortable and fulfilling lives?
I would like to think not.
There are far more efficient ways that are more nurturing to the earth than current techniques.
Permaculture is one example of a far more efficient food producing system, than the current petrochemical model, in terms of land use and such.
Vast areas of monoculture crops are just unsustainable, no matter how you look at it.
It's just not in harmony with the ways of nature, which none of us are above.
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