23 de noviembre de 2013

I feel that the relationship we have with nature needs to be reconsidered.

Im aware that by saying this, I draw a line between nature and us, which is probably not a real distance. But I do feel that the idea of nature cannot be this grand thing we contemplate and adorn with.

We need to start understanding nature and use it for our survival. Physical materials, perhaps, will always exist, which means we are not so much worried about certain resources like petrol, or trees specifically, and we therefore acknowledge in terror that their depletion is close, and therefore we freeze and we stop consuming... Contrary to this, consumption needs to be reasonable, wether we have plenty or not of resources.

Things always transform, and perhaps, like energy, it never gets lost. So the question here might be: how do we transform our environment for our survival?

Nature needs to serve our purpose and therefore, we need to understand how we relate to it, how we are part of a cycle that might constitute survival, and in the process of new modifications how they modify existing processes and their position within existing macrostructures, which might result in a problem with the macro; the micro-problems are embedded in a larger scale process of microprocesses; this large scale of processes constitutes a new level of microprocesses which forms a larger process...so on and so forth.

Questions before entering this enterprise might be related to
(1)- do we conceive the world as an ineligible (non)substance?
(2)- if so, how far can knowledge go?

(3)- can life as we know it be sustained; i.e. become sustainable as a species?


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