Anything we destroy in nature, is first destroyed in us.

Our species must come to realize that the possibility of human intelligence is a network phenomenon directly emergent from the living health and diversity of Earth’s anciently conserved ecosystems.

It is no accident that our excessive representational and intellectual capacities emerged during Earth’s most prodigious periods of biorelational effulgence. In simple language: our intelligence represents a kind of summation-lens of the networked biological intelligences (and living places) we are immersed in and exposed to.

As we attack the anciently conserved networks of living beings, laying waste to both their bodies and the ecosystems in which they are enmeshed, we are ripping the foundations of our own intelligence to shreds. The effect is instantaneous: the more we attack, the more myopic, hubristic and prone to machine-relation we become.

Worse still, the idiocy resulting from these attacks compels us to further attacks. Effectively, the dumber we get, the more careless we become in our relations with the living planet. Within a few generations this slippery slope will become to severe to amend.

If we are to preserve our capacities of intelligence, we must not only preserve but nurture the environments in which they are founded and find their genesis — the ecosystems whose diverse participants comprise, like extrinsic cells, the foundations of the capacities we still enjoy the remnants of.