#david johns

Acknowledging humans as part of Nature does not and cannot justify our ever-growing footprint. The human domination of other species and ecosystems is basically the same as the colonial domination of some people by others, visiting brutally stupid exploitation, displacement, and death on its victims. We might better ask whether the societal machinery that converts so much of the world into commodities for one species—and disproportionately benefiting a few million at the very top of our species’ social hierarchies—is adaptive, healthy, or just. For James Lovelock the answer is clear: “All attempts to rationalize a subjugated biosphere with man in charge are as doomed to failure as the similar concept of benevolent colonialism. They all assume that man is possessor of this planet, if not the owner, then the tenant.”

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