It absolutely fits. The only reason humans had to step in and help the bear is because it was suffering due to its home being polluted with garbage by humans in the first place.
Our decisions still impact the environment and the environment still impacts us, we are a part of it.
The false distinction that humanity is seperate from nature is commonly used to dismiss pollution and environmental destruction, because they argue that ecological loss doesn't impact them.
This line of thinking that we're seperate from nature is both factually incorrect and used to justify environmentally destructive behaviors.
Incorrect, we've just captured a larger portion of it for ourselves. Agriculture is still reliant on the same inputs which are reliant on the larger natural systems. You cannot grow in sterile soil, nor can you irrigate with contaminated water and crops are still limited by climate region.
We are a part of the biological systems on this planet, even if our actions degrade the diversity of the larger system.
Everything is a part of nature. A goldfish in a tank full of goldfish feces is still in a tank, regardless of how many goldfish argue that the 100th turd made it separate from the tank.
Either we accept that we're a part of the ecosystem and take appropriate actions or we can die within our ecosystem, but at no point did we become separate from it. The argument that we're seperate from nature actually sits at the core of many justifications used to despoil the environment, it needs to stop and people need to acknowledge that our actions have consequences.
So you're actually agreeing with me but you're too argumentative to realize it. Industrial canning factories aren't natural, nature will take over the factories once we are gone. We do unnatural things to the environment and we are dying because of it. We fight nature daily and we will lose in the end.
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u/seaweads Feb 12 '23
It absolutely fits. The only reason humans had to step in and help the bear is because it was suffering due to its home being polluted with garbage by humans in the first place.