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Environmental Baddies 21h
NOTHING IS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE PURITY OF NATURE, AND YOU CAN LICK MY BALLS IF YOU THINK A PARKING LOT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN A FOREST
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1704 upvotes, 22 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Environmental Baddies.
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Anonymous 20h

🎶They paved paradise and put up a parking lot🎶

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Anonymous 2h

2/2 NYC here, or Tokyo, or any other enormous metropolis) isn't "living with nature", it's essentially sterilizing an ecosystem of sustainability for most other kinds of life, and making it exclusively by humans, for humans. Technically we're "part of nature", yes, but aspects of our existence, like the structures we build, the social organizations we form, and our superior intelligence, also put us above an beyond anything else "natural" on this planet.

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Anonymous 20h

Not the purity of nature 🙄

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

YES the purity of nature! It’s more important and incredible than anything man has made or altered in this world.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 19h

Just cuz its altered doesnt mean its nature, dawg. It being untouched does not automatically make it pure and healthy thats a settler ass perspective

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

You think it’s humanity’s right just because it exists. That’s YOUR settler ass perspective right there. Manifest destiny POS, you don’t even know wtf you’re talking about, probably picking a fight with me just because you’re bored lol

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 19h

What, no? Im saying construing nature as it is opposed to humanity is not a step in the right direction and seeing untouched=pure ignores all of the ways that people and animals have stewarded that land for millennia.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

^ was going to say this. i work in the amazon and its not untouched and hasn’t been for a long time. large parts of it are cultivated and managed. people are a part of the environment, that can be a good thing, and development doesn’t have to be a matter of paving over the landscape but can be more mutualistic

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14h

I’ve cried to that song fr

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 14h

Thank you! We have to stop pitting nature as mutually exclusive from humans. We are animals, this is all nature, and putting the "wild" on some purity pedestal ignores the fact that we are active participants and stewards and not some separate inherently evil and destructive force upon it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2h

This is true to an extent, and you could make the argument that we lived more "mutually" with nature when we were in tribes, and then more formed isolated societies within nature until a few centuries ago. However, going off the direction that OP is talking about: paving over miles and miles of pristine wilderness with concrete, massive hundred-story edifices intended solely for limited human usage, and essentially sterilizing that landscape's purpose as a natural habitat (talking about 1/2

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