[sneak]

People are an integral part of nature, and therefore everything that people do can be considered a “part” of nature, just as a beaver builds a dam. This concept that human beings are somehow distinct from or superior to or outside of nature is plainly silly, as it fails every objective test one could devise to define it.

Until we possess the technology as a species to potentially destroy the biosphere (this requires boiling the oceans and is presently at least 100% beyond our current capabilities), save me this talk of natural processes (human activities) “ruining” anything. All we’re doing is temporarily rearranging parts of the crust, on a smaller scale than the planet itself does on a fairly regular basis.