[blamestross]

We rotated our evolution from genetics to memetics when we started this whole society thing. Society, culture, cars, concrete, skyscrapers and the internet are all as natural as termite mounds are. We are part of nature not above it. We do have more power to steer the great wheel of nature than most animals, and we have the power to understand the responsibility that comes with it. So yeah, climate change and the Anthropocene extinction are natural events, but collectively working together and stopping or changing the outcome of those events has just as much potential to be "natural" too.