Generations of Ecological Estrangement

As the psychonomy expanded, the planet suffered the tragic consequences of humans effectively domesticating themselves within their own prison, while at the same time outsourcing their civilisation to The Thing: an economic management authority hungry for sales data and tasked with breeding generation after generation of increasingly estranged, brainwashed and unhealthy human cattle.

Most of humanity today still operates much like the original humans who abandoned nature.  The fraudulent narratives of our civilisation glorified the abandonment of nature as an unavoidable step towards progress.  The rebellious teenager may have grown up, but they are more stubborn and selfish than ever.  They’ve had their own kids by now who have grown up city bound, harbouring a strange hatred towards nature.  They have become estranged.  

For most humans today nature is an alien world somewhere far out into the distance.  They have little ecological conscience because all they have ever known is the tiny bubble of civilisation.  They don’t know that this bubble is nested within a much bigger one, Earth’s global ecology.  Ecology is bigger than capitalism, bigger than human civilization itself.  Yet for most humans today ecology takes place somewhere in the sidelines of our existence, or in a classroom, or a nature documentary.  We fail to grasp the gravity of our ignorance of almost everything that exists, having eyes and ears only for what happens inside the tiny artificial bubble which we arrogantly call “civilisation”.

Over the millennia our teenage civilization would go on to masterfully craft countless false narratives about human supremacy over nature, which it vilified as a wild, hostile beast to be tamed, subordinated and eliminated by trophy hunters.  The grown-up teenager today still uses these narratives to convince themselves that abandoning nature was the right decision.  These narratives of human supremacy have become the lullabies for each subsequent generation as it enters adulthood. But self-serving narratives only further inflate the ego.  A predator with no natural enemies eventually builds a prison made of narratives, thinking it’s a palace.  Our civilisation has become a house of cards in the wind held together by a web of delusion.

As humans forget what lies beyond this civilisation, the edges of the city continue to expand, blindly devouring the countryside like an unstoppable fungus on its way to completing its lifecycle.  Obsessed with growth, human civilization is unaware it is already finished.  It is spending money it doesn’t have on resources which no longer exist, to raise a generation of humans who are about to fight each other for food.  

Earth’s destruction is becoming our single biggest achievement.  Beyond inventions, works of art, music, and even trips to the moon, it is the annihilation of climate and biosphere which will be our ultimate legacy as a species.

George is an author, researcher, molecular biologist and food scientist.

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