Species die out, the soil dries, forests are on fire. Thanks to man, who wanted to restrain nature, nature disappears at a rapid pace. Philosophers call the age in which we live the Anthropocene, because man has left his mark everywhere on, around and inside the earth. The human species, itself part of nature, overgrown the earth.
“Nature was here “thinks the seagull swallows a balloon that looked like a fish. “Nature was here “cries the orangutan as the sawters drive him out of the jungle. “Nature was here” think, in turn, billions of people as a virus drives a large number of species to death. “Nature was here” whispers the desert that has become a great oasis through irrigation. And also the farmer whose sheep were bitten to death by the wolf, thinks “Nature was here.”.

But what is nature in these examples? Is 'the nature' disappearing? Or knocks it back like a thief in the night secretly with full force (“Nature was here!')? What is the difference between human and non-human nature, between 'culture' and 'nature'? Does that difference exist, or has it never existed? Does man deserve a separate status compared to other species and natural phenomena? Or is the life of a tree, animal or river as important as a man's life?

Area as large as the Netherlands to original rainforest cut down in 2020.
Last year 4.2 million hectares of original rainforest disappeared, according to Wednesday published figures from Global Forest Watch (GFW) and the University of Maryland. This is an area the size of the Netherlands and an increase of 12 percent compared to a year earlier. A total of 12.2 million hectares of tropical forest were lost last year.

That, of course, encourages thinking. In the Month of Philosophy 2021.

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