How do you cope with the fact that so much of the world has been tamed by man and that we can never get the opportunity to witness the natural beauty it once held? I know that one day nature will reclaim what we will eventually abandon but it will surely take a great length of time for that to take place on a large scale.
Maybe it's just because I live in a particularly ugly and metropolitan part of the rust belt but the thought really eats away at me.
ive made my peace and hope that I dont live long enough to see the horrors of our creation
Look no further than zoomers
You will see more decline than you will reclamation in your lifetime, so you might as well just find solace in the fact that, as you say, it will all come to a halt eventually. Best to focus on your immediate environment, and seek to create an oasis away from the smog and general drudgery. Get out of the city, if you can.
you're posting on the internet+
fricking Black person
if you want untamed nature go to fricking alaska or wherever the frick instead of posting here
I live in a somewhat rural part of one of the largest metropolitan regions in the US.. 35 minutes to the city with one of the highest murder rates per capita in the country.. i spend a lot of time in bits of forest with old growth trees(thank god some are still preserved where i am), imagining what it was like.. Contemplating how we might bring it back and restore the health and vigor to the natural systems we've destroyed. I well and truly believe that we can make the world more beautiful than it has been for a long time.. like tens of thousands of years.. if we think and act creatively and with purpose.
>I well and truly believe that we can make the world more beautiful than it has been for a long time.. like tens of thousands of years.. if we think and act creatively and with purpose.
I, too, was 19 once. Shlt isn't happening until humans are gone.
no humans, no beauty
what we need is the subhumans(like you) gone.
why are you trannies always so aggressive? he's right
That doesn't mean that humans aren't capable of spoiling the natural beauty that we see. If you need me to post evidence of this fact then you're beyond help.
I mean, I think there IS a level of beauty in cities, especially with considering the generations worth of ingenuity and tenacity that went into building them up to what they are today. It's just that when you live so close to it you get exposed to the less admirable aspects of their existence, which in recent years has only intensified. And no matter how safe and clean you make them, seeing them and walking through their streets just never stirs the same emotions as being in the wilderness does.
I'm not saying cities can't be beautiful. I was responding to a post which basically said humans need to die off for anything truly beautiful to regenerate. But I was pointing out that beauty is something that only exists in the mind of a human. It doesn't exist objectively. No humans, no beauty. Plenty of beautiful things created by man. Most of them, of course are inspired by or derived from natural materials. And of course the highest form of beauty(literally what God told us to do, if you believe in that sort of stuff) is to steward over and tend to the natural world. We are not very good stewards atm
You could take a walk in a park, you know.
The man made park, with manicured lawns and planted trees and swept trails. Totally the best way to witness natural beauty.
not OP but in my part of the country, practically anywhere green that is more or less easily accessible is filled with white Black folk blaring shitty music nonstop. I think things will improve if I moved to the opposite side of the country where people are less subhuman but it wouldn't be much of a change I'm afraid. I wish I could move to Finland or something. Northern Europeans seem much more civil than anyone here
Hu? What country is that, Luxembourg?
My local park is 4 acres of mowed grass, not nearly as cool as an old growth forest.
Better than nothing.
You believe that?
You realize we haven't seen everything within the ice walls judging by various omitted things
And beyond the ice walls... who knows
Humans are a part of nature anything we build is natural. Therefore natural beauty can never fully disappear
>Humans are a part of nature anything we build is natural
Transparent sophistry. Stay in school, kid.
Anon you literally cannot prove me wrong you are no different than any other animal.
There's always northern Canada for you, alot of the northwest territories is untouched from what I understand. Of course you get all the negatives of living that north ie crackheads, murders, various species of rednecks, hopelessness, etc. But maybe all that doesn't bother you idk
>red necks
It’s the Ingens you have to worry about up there not the white guys.
>Maybe it's just because I live in a particularly ugly and metropolitan part of the rust belt but the thought really eats away at me
that's basically the problem right there. i look out my window here in oregon and all i see are trees, hills, and more trees. they might not be the old growth they were 100 years ago, but after the loggers finished up, the forest recovered, and a few decades on it's very much wilderness.
deer, turkey, bear, cougar, fox, rabbit, squirrel, chipmunk, birds of all varieties are all over the place. don't get demoralized anon.
There's more trees now than there were in 1900
[citation needed]
it is, in all likelihood, true.. but it is also entirely meaningless and not something to be proud of. the year 1900 was basically the peak of deforestation and we had deforested 99% of the old-growth forests and in many cases the 2nd, and 3rd growth as well, by that point. Now we have replanted(basically timber agriculture) and allowed much of it to regrow. But if you've ever been in real old growth forest and seen real old-growth, 500+year old trees, you know that # of trees is not some perfect metric, and also know they're comparing it to 1900, which was basically after 200+years of total free-for-all environmental devastation
this is what appalachia used to look like...
I go outside.
Most of the world hasn’t been tamed by man. You’re just moronic.
Nature is absolutely brutal, uncaring and at a constant state of warfare with itself fur supremacy of individual organisms.
The only reason you like nature is because you know you can go back to your apartment once you've had your fill.
theres a natural reserve that is 30 minutes away by car or 1 hour by walking/public transport
forgot to add I'm SEA