No one will argue that man is part of nature. And, despite the dubious history of the origin of mankind, one cannot relate oneself to the animal kingdom in any way. Echoes of instincts, anatomical features, the impossibility of existence without food, water, air, interaction with other objects of surrounding reality of natural origin - everything just screams that a person is undoubtedly one of the elements in the existing world of nature.
The lifetime of a person is negligible compared to the duration of a planet. Billions of years on Earth, life was born, developed and evolved into different forms, and there was nothing that even remotely resembled a human being. During this time, the planet has accumulated huge reserves of resources, many of which have been stored for billions of years, remaining unclaimed, since there was no one to use them.
Today, the world's population is about seven billion people, but many species of animals and plants have irrevocably disappeared. The ratio of the human species and the rest of the animal world is changing, and it is the man who is responsible for the decrease in the number of animals and plants. For example, in the era of the birth of mankind, people killed animals only for the purpose of survival (to satisfy hunger and the need for heat), like other representatives of the animal world. But as human development and the emergence of society, the relationship of man with nature and its resources has changed. People ceased to be a natural element in the cycle of substances in nature, gradually turning into active consumers, often ungrateful and selfish.
As a result of the increase in population and the associated increase in the consumption of natural resources, their reserves are rapidly melting, now rare animals disappear irrevocably, the forest is cut down illegally and is not restored. The greed and thirst for profit lead to the extinction of species and the inappropriate use of natural reserves.
To imagine that someday minerals will run out, the land will cease to produce crops, and livestock will be destroyed by another epidemic - now, sitting at a computer in the center of a multi-million city, it is quite difficult, although similar troubles have been happening more often in recent years. With different frequency and territorial characteristics.
"We are here - the problem is somewhere out there, and it does not concern me" - every second inhabitant of a large metropolis takes this position. Technological progress is growing - and the environment is deteriorating, people are coming up with increasingly sophisticated methods of forcibly extracting natural resources - and diseases are increasing, viruses are mutating and adapting to new conditions. There is a clear tendency: the more a person changes something in nature in his favor, the worse the living conditions of a person become - not from the point of view of the comfort created by him, but from the point of view of ecology and living conditions on earth.
Many scientists believe that nature takes revenge on the destroyers with cataclysms, natural disasters, the birth of new viruses and bacteria dangerous to humans.
Man cannot live without nature, because he himself is part of it, he himself is nature. And, destroying nature, he destroys himself.
