We can learn how to control the planet, instead of being like cancer in Nature
Question from the Internet:
“Is it because of cooperation that humans rule the planet?”
I would modify your statement saying that “if we cooperated, we could rule the planet”.
Instead - since we can’t cooperate and we pursue constant ruthless competition, success and survival at each other’s expense - at the moment we are busy self-destructing and destroying the planet as well for good measure.
With our present, inherent Human system we believe like cancer - recklessly consuming everything and everybody in our path until nothing remains.
Only by learning how to cooperate through mutually responsible and mutually complementing interconnections - above and despite everything that separates, rejects us from each other - can we learn how to adapt ourselves to Nature’s balance and homeostasis.
Through our conscious, methodical integration with each other we would acquire an unprecedented similarity with Nature’s system. As a result we would enter Nature - instead of being outsiders - and obtain the ability to research and understand it from within, opening the treasure chest to all of the incredible resources, energy sources we cannot even imagine today.
Of course by then - due to this integration and insider understanding - we would use everything only within the optimal parameters of natural necessities and available resources.
This way we would become Nature’s benevolent partners, meriting the role of becoming the system’s “truly Human” governors, conscious guardians.