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The post-natural world of tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari, Slavoj Žižek

Philosophy For Our Times

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Do We Treat the Earth as a Resource?

Uval: The earth is a resource to all other organisms. But do they? Do they exhibit moderation? Is moderation built into nature? And then, by extension of your initial argument, why we shouldn't have to extend a moderation to nature, should we? Because whatever we want, therefore, is natural. No imen. In some systems ar in equilibrium and are in honostasis, and you do see moderation, in a way, built into them. Some systems are not. They are completely out of balance, completely out of control. So again, hitherto, you can't justsay something which would be true of all natural phenomena. Uval: I feel compelled to say

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