Why are human needs contradicting Nature’s needs?
Question from the Internet:
“Can anyone introduce the conflicting water needs of humans and nature in their community, explaining what the problem is, how it is impacting their community, and what solutions have been found or are being explored so far?”
This explanation is relatively simple. The “human needs” for water and other resources conflict with “Nature’s needs” because our present human system is incompatible with Nature’s laws that govern and sustain the general balance and homeostasis that life and optimal development depend on.
Our human system and all our activities are based on our inherently self-serving, egocentric, subjective and exploitative worldview and behaviour. As long as we blindly and instinctively follow our original nature, we exist and act like cancer in Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system.
In the long term, there is only one “winner” in this intensifying conflict between humanity and Nature.
Nature’s system is infinitely stronger and greater than whatever humanity can set up. So if we stubbornly continue following our inherent nature, we will be rejected by Nature as a harmful foreign body. In fact, we can already observe how everything we do fails and how our proudly built systems and activities collapse like a house of cards. Everything we have ever invented, developed and built is slipping through our fingers like sand.
We are finding out through desperate helplessness how the “human emperor is naked” and completely powerless.
Our continuing and collective human survival depends on humbly accepting that we need to change and further develop ourselves until we reach complete compatibility with Nature’s laws and its evolutionary direction towards integration. Then, when our needs match Nature’s needs and our aspirations and developmental goals match Nature’s, we will find solutions to our problems and safeguard our survival.