Nowadays, the world is facing multiple ecological problems. It’s interesting to notice that for centuries, the occidental civilization has been considering nature as something which would be separated from humanity and only there to be exploited. In other traditions and cultures, human beings and nature are part of the same whole. For example, Rastafarians (like the members of Steel Pulse, the musicians who inspired this post) think that they belong to nature and this is why they say that they want to live in peace and harmony with their “mother nature”. As long as we consider nature as something that we can master, it seems very difficult to find solutions to the ecological challenges we are facing. Maybe the only solution would be to adopt another philosophy in which we are part of the nature, which would mean that if we do harm to nature, we do harm to ourselves.
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