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I'm Indigenous Canadian and I grew up with my family in a traditional wilderness setting in Northern Ontario. Some of the most beautiful, pristine garden like environments I've ever seen are just random untouched wilderness locations that has never seen logging, mining or development. Especially at the height of summer when everything is in bloom .... these are places that look like manicured, intelligently designed and almost artificial sanctuaries that were planted by someone or a group of people, and they stretches for miles. As humans, we can recreate this beauty in pockets or well tended gardens, but nature does it automatically all over the planet without our intervention, and often in spite of our ignorance.
There's nothing wrong with the planet or the environment ... it will survive and live without us for millions and billions of years - no matter what we do it.
There's something terribly wrong with us.
original sin?
One could argue the original sin is the desire for order in a system that refuses to obey.
Hmm, perhaps, but personally I have a problem with this expression that there is "something terribly wrong with us". It feels awfully close to the Christian guilt-tripping nonsense of original sin that I grew up with. It's a waste of time, and sanity.
Capitalism is terribly wrong with us