Nature reacts to Human activity — or we punish ourselves by breaking Nature’s laws
Opinion from the Internet about Nature and Human activity:
“Despite what you claim, the pandemic is NOT a ‘reaction’ at all. The virus is not cognizant of anything. It spreads when it can and doesn’t when it can’t.
Nature is not conscious as a whole, it is not goal-oriented, it has no direction. It exploits any opportunity to spread, with no regard for the effects on the rest of nature. Nature just proliferates. Any way or time that it can. Sometimes as a result of the super-success of other lifeforms. Oxygen is poisonous to cyanobacteria, which produce it as waste. If Humanity eliminates itself, some other organisms will profit.”
I will try to give you a different picture regarding Nature and how it “reacts” to us.
First of all, it is not true that Nature just proliferates. Nature is a closed, fully integrated system comprising of smaller, also closed sub-systems, like rainforests, reef systems for example. In those closed subsystems there is no random proliferation, but there is a fragile, constantly controlled balance and homeostasis.
And each still, vegetative and animate elements of the system contributes to that balance. Animals, plants do not proliferate as Humans do, they never leave their normal habitat, they do not accumulate resources, they do not over-populate unless natural catastrophes or Human interference disturbs the balance.
If we want to take it even closer to us we can observe the same laws and behavior within our own biological body — as a closed, integrated Natural system — regarding balance and homeostasis. Excessive growth happens only until maturity is achieved. beyond that excessive growth leads to disease, cancer.
Nature is based on strict, unchanging laws that keep that balance, We know some of the laws while we do not know or ignore others. We know many laws regarding our own biological body, health and we still ignore, break them wanting excessive, unhealthy pleasures even if we die as a result. Only Humans behave that way.
And regarding Nature it is the same. We keep the law of gravity, we do not jump off a tall building as otherwise, we hurt ourselves, or even die. We can look at it as “Nature punishing us” with that or we can look at it as we ourselves punishing ourselves by ignoring the laws.
And we all ignore Nature’s laws of integration, the laws sustaining balance and homeostasis as we pursue a “cancer-like” Human system with overconsumption, ruthless, exclusive competition.