"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world." Max Weber
along with disenchantment, the development of materialistic science drained reverence from life, projecting its theoretical indifference onto the universe.
the practical result is what we see.
destruction of nature, disregard for all forms of life including human,
indifference. depraved indifference.
a dearth of reverence.
“Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos.
no longer involved in nature and without emotional participation in natural events,
immediate communication with nature has gone forever, and the emotional energy it generates has sunk into the unconscious.”
LET US:
“restore that strata of the mythic, of the psychic to the natural phenomena
move around the mythology of volcanoes and use it as a metaphor,
to return the spirit to the physical.”
alchemical process
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/this-jungian-life-podcast/id1376929139
these factors are all interconnected. certainly, population pressures destroy ecosystems to accommodate human activities,
and the development of scientific language lowered and in many cases removed historical cultural constraints against wanton development and the pursuit of luxury.
it appears that nature is gearing up to reduce that pressure from multiple directions.
@jjGravitas @holon42 I'm not sure that's overpopulation, rather than "bad use of energy and materials". Humans are extremely scalable. A single human can provide for multiple other humans.
When you see more humans and less stuff available for them, it's typically not that we're out of resources. They've just been extracted away from those who need them to those who accumulate them.