Before the Amazon rainforest started getting destroyed in order to make farmland for Dick Rommalds cattle farms, the stories of nightmarish flora and fauna scared away more than a few outsiders. The average human lifespan is 70 to 80 years in the developed world, and 40% of Americans will get cancer at some point in their life. The rates of cancer in the wild are much lower due to decreased levels of exposure to toxins. You also get 400-year-old sharks.

Is naturophilia just cope? Because it seems like all signs are pointing toward the destruction of all nature and, ironically, even humanity eventually, in our race to dominate other nations.

The longer you are alive the more likely you are to develop cancer. More cell division = higher likelihood of cancer.

>>510293248 (OP)
natural death was unknown to australian aboriginals until europeans showed up.

>>510293360
Thanks for the bump bot

>>510293360
AI is going to completely cure cancer as well as all other diseases

>>510293511
Citation needed

>>510293637
they didn't know sex made babies either.

>>510293511
https://youtu.be/dQvO7xviOyc&t=100

>>510293565
Nope. Curing cancer is like being able to safeguard your code(in this case dna) from producing any bugs when it's replicated. It's been shown that that's mathematically impossible.

>>510293565
I activate Time Waster!

>>510293977
Stars are born, live, and die, and live to be billions of years old.

>>510293248 (OP)
Radiotrophic fungi are fungi that can perform the hypothetical biological process called radiosynthesis, which means using ionizing radiation as an energy source to drive metabolization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus

How much have people utilized nature in a symbiotic form? When artificial wombs are created could they grow us bio-mechanical appliances?

>>510294453
How is one supposed to have a family, safeguard their wealth, fend off invaders with a gun (made with metal stolen from the ground and smelted with the flesh of trees), without destroying nature somewhat?

Entropy is law.

>>510294453
The universe gave us pleasure and pain as guiding principles. As you're pointing out there are things going on about which we are unaware... But few to zero women will start a family with you if your plan is be a pacifist in the woods.

>>510295817
you can't steal what is yours. we are divine creatures. this world is our dominion. it is our garden and we are the gardeners.

>>510294453
* metabolism
* appendages

>>510295817
On a small scale there is no problem with this. The main issue is mass resource extraction without technological capability for replenishment.
Out of necessity or innovation, we should eventually reach a point where the line between mechanical and natural technology becomes blurred.

>>510296043
By no means pacifism. I am simply advocating for a broader classification of technology.
The only two options should not be medieval feudalism or mechanical futurism.

>>510296127
Judeo-Islamic-Christan delusion. A truly divine being need not destroy others, nor does he fear his own death because he cannot be destroyed.

>>510293248 (OP)
> "If the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There will be extensive genetic engineering of human beings, either through eugenics or through direct manipulation of genes. In the long run... this will probably result in a reduction of human beings to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine."

>>510296634
you've been mind-broken by hippie woo-woo which is nothing more than a soviet psyop from the 1970s that has overstayed its welcome.

>>510296127
The tumor of Nature known as humanity will finally be extracted and destroyed. The irony is that in our attempt to destroy others, we have brought about our own destruction.

>>510293248 (OP)
i personally don't care for nature
i don't like being in it, i don't find it pretty, if i had my way i'd replace the gov mandated gardens with nice clean slabs shaded by an ultra poisonous tree

>>510297660
Ideonella sakaiensis is a bacterium from the genus Ideonella and family Comamonadaceae capable of breaking down and consuming the plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) using it as both a carbon and energy source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideonella_sakaiensis

>>510293248 (OP)
>Before the Amazon rainforest started

>>510297021
Nice going, technosharts! You've done a great job!

>>510298243
Don't you worry, we are going to adapt to our new environment too. And it ain't going to be pretty.

>>510299300
If you think a digital copy of your mind will be the end of it you are mistaken.
It ends with pulling your consciousness out of your body after death and retransferring it back into a new body. (If you enjoy this dimension that is)