Human habitat

Humans have created large cities, with skyscrapers, with millions of people, where little life grows, except for themselves. We have created artificial environments, we have become more separated from nature.

This is the habitat of half the world's population: cement, pavement, steel and glass, where cars create smog, where there's a lot of dust and the air sometimes becomes unbreathable. People live in apartments like rabbits in storied cages. In cities diseases are more frequent and spread faster.

What is life like for a modern human?
They wake up in their cage, they go to work in another cage usually, come home and look at screens and are entertained. The next day they resume the cycle. This is what we've become. Do we see the Sun? Do we see the stars? Do we still look at bees flying from one flower to another? Do we still see the beauty in nature or are we so alienated from it that we can't appreciate it anymore?

Maybe this is why we are so careless with it, maybe this is why we destroy it as we do. We cannot live without nature, although many people believe they can.

For most of human history, humans have lived in close connection with nature. Was that so bad? Is our life better? They suffered from some diseases, from natural disasters but so do we. We have our own diseases and natural disasters still affect us. Human lifespan has grown but at what cost? Maybe we should understand that a longer life doesn't mean a better life.

I'm not saying that we should abandon our cities and move into caves but can't we reconcile nature with technology? I believe we can. Nature and technology are very important parts of human existence and we have no choice but to reconcile them.