Thread by @CPLF88

1. Part of being natural is being wild, or exhibiting a level of wildness, therefore everything that is natural is inherently wild, or has an inherent level of wildness. It is an organism's level of wildness and ability to adapt that allows it to survive.

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2. Inherent wildness becomes fully cultivated and realized through the creation of durable interactions between an organism and its natural environment (or the environment it has become naturalized in).

3. When wildness can't be cultivated and realized, or it is greatly diminished, both the organism and its environment (the environment it inhabits) will suffer losses from the lack of durable interactions between them, until one or both of them adapts or perishes.

4. We humans currently have a greatly diminished wildness due to the lack of durable interactions between ourselves and our environment (the environment we inhabit). We are very much like an aggressively invasive species that has spread globally.

5. We have anti-naturalized ourselves through a diminishing of our own wildness, by removing or reducing durable interactions between ourselves and our environment. This is the anti-natural process we call civilization, which has separated much of ourselves from our environment.

6. By continuing this separation, we have continued to diminish our wildness and anti-naturalize ourselves even further, and both ourselves and our environment have suffered losses in the process; although one has suffered much more than the other so far (hint: our environment).

7. So if we are unwilling to adapt—as we have been so far—our environment will eventually adapt before us, and it will begin to seek out durable interactions for the cultivation of wildness and the creation of wildernesses, in spite of us; likely causing us to perish.

8. To adapt, we must stop diminishing our wildness and start cultivating it by creating durable interactions between ourselves and our environment. This will help create wildernesses that our wildness can be cultivated and realized in, thus creating more wildernesses.

9. We essentially have to stop anti-naturalizing ourselves through the anti-natural process of civilization, and start naturalizing ourselves in our environment again through a rewilding of ourselves and our environment. Simply put, we have to learn how to adapt, or perish.

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