Why Should Anyone Love Nature?

The green romance with nature is more like a one night stand than anything substantial.

A main reason why greens worship nature is because of its alleged beauty.

And from afar nature is beautiful.  

It has an infinite number of captivating perspectives, a wonderful array of ever changing plants and animals, and is superbly quiet in ways that our noisy civilization is not.

For these reasons the novelty and restorative utility of nature should be lauded.

But that doesn’t mean we should “love” nature.  

After all, nature has quite a lot of baggage.

To start, nature is a fundamentally messy place.  Behind every crevice, underneath every rock or log, or next to every river nature is crawling with predators, bugs, fungal spores, mites, and even disease.  

And nature too is quite dangerous.  For in nature bugs, plants, and animals and even the weather often aren’t hospitable to human interests.  In fact in nature these competing forces turn nature into an organic battleground of endless destruction.  

So much then for the quiet bliss of an undisturbed, peaceable, and perfect nature.

Instead of loving nature then we should appreciate civilization as the masterful triumph over the destructive forces of nature that it is.

For unlike nature, civilization is a safe space for humans to exist.  

And members of civilization seek to protect culture, grow families and nations, and invent new ways for humans to have even more fun -- all without the threats presented to us by nature.

For this reason our hearts and minds should side with civilization and not nature.  When they do perhaps humanity will once again flourish instead of floundering under the destructive philosophies of nature worship and other neo-tribalist non-sense.