It is not the natural environment that needs saving, but it is humanity!
Question from the Internet:
“Is it true that the environment will soon be unable to sustain life?”
In theory, it can happen, although, at this stage, we have absolutely no idea about Nature’s true reserves and its power of recovery.
We are not even scratching the surface when it comes to natural necessities and available resources since we are completely incompatible with Nature’s mutual integration and the laws that sustain the general balance and homeostasis life depends on.
Still, we got a glimpse into how much Nature is capable of replenishing and restoring itself in those few months of almost complete global quarantine at the beginning of the pandemic. The whole planet has changed, and came back to life, in China and India, for example, people saw the unblemished sky they haven’t seen for generations. Animals we thought were extinct came back and decades of human abuse and neglect were wiped out just within a few weeks.
So I would not write off Nature to survive and sustain life just yet.
I think the more likely scenario is that we will go extinct much earlier than Nature would suffer irreversible damage. To start with, we will kill each other through global wars, or in chaotic, anarchic societies as our socioeconomic system is collapsing. Additionally, without the crucially important, selfless, positive and sustainable global interactions and cooperation global problem-solving depends on, we have absolutely no chance of comprehending let alone solving such problems as climate change, large scale plagues, pollution and depleting food and water supplies.
It is humanity that has no chance of surviving and sustaining its own life if we continue blindly following our inherently cancer-like nature.
So instead of trying to save animals and other parts of Nature, we would need to seriously think about how we can save ourselves — by completely changing our attitude and behaviour towards each other.