I love to go for a morning walk in the bitter cold because it reminds me that the earth is fundamentally hostile and out to kill me
@dorsalstream Don't confuse the earth with the population of the earth. The earth doesn't care, it just likes the show.
@dorsalstream That made me laugh out loud. Yeah, nature can be really dangerous.

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Only if you live with a mindset of ignorance or helplessness, or disavow the importance of the various sorts of caring communities that have always existed to make sure it doesn't.

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(Paraphrasing): We thought we had conquered the natural world because we had become the masters of animals and plant life. Then we recognized that animals and plants are just fellow travellers, struggling just like us. The real natural world is dust and vacuum and hard radiation - it never rests and is always hungry.