Nature does not need protection — we need protection from ourselves

Question from the Internet:

“Do you have optimism that nature will be protected in the future?”

We can be very optimistic about nature’s protection, more precisely about nature’s self-protection.

As the “live” examples shown during the first part of the global quarantine especially, as soon as humanity retreated nature immediately almost miraculously starting balancing, repairing itself. We can also see examples from such sites as Chernobyl or Fukushima, where humans disappeared, can’t return but wildlife is flourishing.

There is only one truly endangered species and it is us.

We are heading towards self-destruction as a result of stubbornly pressing our unnatural, unsustainable human system with its excessive overconsumption and ruthless competition where we succeed at each other’s expense.

It is our turn to slide into our own civilization-ending explosion, following the previous, helplessly recurring vicious, historic cycles.

Thus it is not nature that needs protection, it is us, human beings who need protection — from ourselves. We need to learn how to abandon our past, present, self-serving, self-justifying, exploitative, and subjective ideologies, philosophies, religions, and systems in order to rebuild a global human society based on nature’s perfect, fully integrated, mutually responsible and mutually complementing template.

Only then will we merit to be called “Human” — consciously similar to nature, above and against our selfish, egoistic instincts.