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By that definition, everything is “nature”, so the word is meaningless.



Yeah.... I don't find this disagreeable

Ever read on the idea that most megafauna was hunted down by men?

Yeah... that seems pretty erhm, "unnatural", therefore the entire rest of the world is "unnatural"

Supposedly the tsetse fly was local to a very small area of Africa, yet during the 1700 and 1800 during colonialism it spread onto the rest of the continent, before that the continent was quite settled with larger farm fields in respective areas, but the tzetze fly disrupted all that

Anyhow just wanted to say that "nature" and "natural" once one starts digging more are not really "useful" descriptions, because the world is complex and not an idealized scenario


The era in which we live is called "Anthropocene", which is defined so because humans are powerful enough to define the environment. Wild days were in haha.


Precisely




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