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What humans do stops being natural when it is no longer person-power but powered machines. That gives huge amounts of leverage.

You would consider a car, or a chainsaw natural? I wouldn't.




Some of us believe that artificial is merely of a subset of natural and saying that they are disjoint is a kind of naturalistic fallacy.


Humans can light the earth on fire with thousands of nuclear explosions. Almost nothing would survive. I’d say we’re well past natural. But your ways less extreme.


A long long time ago some organisms “polluted” the athmosphere with oxygen. It wasn’t a natural event in your opinion?


An asteroid can hit the earth and do the same thing. Is it not natural either?


And cyanobacteria transformed the entire atmosphere, to such a degree that almost everything else died out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event




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