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> but we have the intelligence to tame our environment

I beg to differ when most wealthy and well-off Americans get affected by drought, fires, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, freak snow storms... and still stay in the same place all year round trying to tame their environment.

We cannot tame the environment, we just create mini environments.

Nature is amazingly powerful

Taming the environment is proving to be bad, isn't it?

It has pros and cons, but I think civilization is a massive pro that outweighs all the cons.