Can mankind live in harmony with Nature?

Question from the Internet:

“If nature and all living things flourish without humankind, what is the best way for people to develop/progress without upsetting this flourishing of life? What are the best examples (country/state/island-wide)”

I would address the second part of the question: so far, we do not have any positive examples of human societies living in harmony with nature — except the early hunter-gatherer times perhaps, and some still existing, remove indigenous tribes or societies that somehow escaped the usual egoistic and individualistic human development.

Human beings are “created” by evolution with a completely “unnatural,” inherently egocentric, subjective, individualistic, and exploitative nature that has reached its maximum potential in our times.

Evolution purposefully “released human beings into production” with a seemingly unfinished or “beta software,” giving us the ability and free choice to take our development into our own hands and complete Human evolution.

In our original form, with this “beta software,” we exist and behave in Nature’s otherwise finely balanced and mutually integrated system like cancer. We excessively overconsume everything we can get our hands on, which reckless overconsumption and destruction have been exponentially growing as our technology, appetite, and population developed. At the same time, we define our existence through ruthless and exclusive competition, where we each survive and succeed at each other’s expense while destroying the Natural system that gives us life.

But again, this has been intentionally “arranged” by Nature’s evolution so we could arrive at today’s state of seeing ourselves on the brink of self-destruction. This “shocking” breaking point is supposed to awaken our unique human intellect that is capable of critical self-assessment and initiating self-change and self-upgrade.

If at least a critical minority of people recognize and humbly accept that the root cause of humanity’s problem is within our own inherent nature, and we also develop an irrepressible and pressing need to change and further develop ourselves, we can start this new, conscious and purposeful human development, learning how to adapt ourselves to and integration into Nature’s harmonious system.

And this is the whole point in our human evolution, the conscious and purposeful change. If we integrate into Nature by integrating with each other first, copying Nature’s template into human interconnections and the fabric of human society — against and above our inherent nature, we achieve what evolution wants us to achieve.

This way — through the unique contrast and duality between our original and acquired nature and abilities — we will become Nature’s only fully conscious, seamlessly integrated, and at the same time independent observers and equal partners.