follow the yellow brick road.
The difference between humans and other living thngs is that we can conciously choose to do something about the environment. Human intellectual ability means that we can study cause and effect, make reasonable predictions and alter our behaviour so that what we judge to be harmful situations may improve. This ability to critically reflect on our actions and change them appropriately is significant. As far as we know it, no other species can do it to the extent that we can. Humans can modify nature to a significant extent - for good or ill. However, when so much of our energy is devoted to improving our own lifestyles, the result can be inequalities in the system elsewhere, either for nature of for other humas who are part of it. "Strange that two thirds of the world are starving while the other third is slimming" - D Bellamy and B Quayle, Turning the Tide
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