Monday, April 22, was Earth Day. This is my belated Earth Day post.
It occurs to me that almost all of our problems in the Western world are due to assaults on nature. But that doesn't mean what you may at first think it does. Indeed, a lot of people who may be inclined to cheer that sentiment, at first, are primary in assaulting nature.
I'm not going to get into a big long post on one environmental topic or another. Not at all. But it's clear that in the Western world, we're assaulting nature and starting off with assaulting our own natures. We are emphasizing the unnatural in innumerable ways, from diets that don't comport with our natures, to confusing chemistry with food production in frightening and developing ways, to views on nature and nature's animals that are deeply unnatural, to views on our own selves that are highly unnatural, to chemical and surgical alternations of our natural selves.
That may not seem to have much to do with Earth Day, but it does. Do really appreciate nature, you have to be part of it. And to be part of it, you can't deny it.
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