What can we do for the environment?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readDec 7, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“What have you done for the environment?”

I am not sure which environment you mean, human or natural.

Humanity, as a single species, is an integral part of Nature. And since we are the “qualitatively” highest level part of Nature, with unique mental and emotional abilities and very advanced technology, what humanity is doing has much greater implications for the whole system than the rest of the system combined.

We can’t do anything positive toward Nature until we figure out how to improve and rebuild the human environment.

As long as we all blindly and instinctively follow our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic nature, making only subjective calculations according to our own introverted viewpoint, even when we think we have “good intentions” and we truly want to “save or correct” something, we only cause harm.

Only in a “Nature-like” human society, where each individual becomes like a healthy cell in a healthy body, can we develop the collective ability to understand Nature and the natural environment and contribute to its general balance and homeostasis.

So we will do positive things to the natural environment where we have already learned and implemented how to do positive things to the human environment.

And when humanity starts acting like a single, positive, and “Nature-like” (mutually integrated and mutually complementing) entity, then we will become not only “one of the species” in Nature but the most important one: Nature’s only conscious observer and equal partner.

Personally, I am trying to promote a unique method that can help us in building the above-mentioned, Nature-like human environment that can become benevolent toward Nature.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.