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There's a word for it: anthropocentrism. Also a common fallacy/myth: the noble savage.

"But it wouldn't have been ecological. The geotects of Imperial Tectonics would not have known an ecosystem if they'd been living in the middle of one. But they did know that ecosystems were especially tiresome when they got fubared, so they protected the environment with the same implacable, plodding, green-visioned mentality that they applied to designing overpasses and culverts."

-- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age.

Kind of interesting timing given the mysterious sea fence that appeared recently [1].

Does that mean there's still some sort of hope...?

[1] https://en.tempo.co/read/1963072/after-much-protest-pantura-...

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