The Immature Approach to Controlling Nature

Rihta: There's an immature approach to trying to dominate nature that still comes from a place of presumed separateness. A more mature humanity, perhaps in the future, could imbibe a sort of more dialectical approach," he says. Rihta: Life has always been engaged in this process of transforming its environment in order to afford itself more freedom. And it's almost like we b got, we got too good at transforming our environment. We became too powerful, in practical terms, technologically speaking, too quickly before our moral and philosophical understanding of what we were doing could catch up"