Contemplating nature

Humanity tends to divide the world conceptually into two; the human world and the natural world. Whilst nature has enabled and nurtured human civilisation for about eight thousand years, our modern tendency to see ourselves as separate from it is starting to have severe consequences.

The natural world is a complex system of complex sub-systems. The carbon cycle, the water cycle, interactive dependencies between different species and ecosystems, soil microbiota, ocean currents and air currents are examples of sub-systems that collectively act to form the global biome. And humanity is abusing and damaging them.
Humans are not separate from the biome. We're an integral part of it, contiguous with it. Dependent upon it as much as any species. If the biome itself collapses, our civilisation does too.
Our erroneous ways are manifold. Carbon emissions (breaking the carbon cycle), excess water extraction from ancient aquifers (breaking the water cycle), global plastic pollution, soil destruction, the destruction of forests, and the driving of species to extinction. Carbon emissions alone are causing ocean acidification, warming ocean temperatures (with consequent declining oxygen content), rising sea levels, changing ocean currents (like the Gulf Stream), changing land based temperatures, wildfires, droughts, floods etc etc.

This picture simply shows someone with greater than typical sensitivity to the beauty and fragility of nature, and our relationship with her.

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