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It's a good thought, and works at first glance, but if you think about it, the termites don't hurt the planet making thoes mounds, they use what nature has given them and build on. Humans take what nature has given them, add other things, make all sorts of polution, put everything through processes that hurt the enviorment and distroy things.
A swarm of locusts will come and distroy crops and land for a big area, and hurt things for a bit, sure, but they overpopulate and die out. Humans have figured out how to jam pack people into small spaces (new york exc.) and keep them from spreading desease (shots, meds, waste elemination, exc.) so that we won't die out. Nature intended things like deseases to keep species from being overpopulated because when there are too many of somthing, it kills the planet.
Nature also intended speicies to die out if their food source becomes scarce. Four or five wolf packs are crammed into a park with one herd of deer. Eventuley the wolves kill them all off. What happends? they kill eachother until there are few enough to live without over hunting, or they all die. Man has gotten rid of this problem too. We have farms and cattle ranches that provide our food, so that we can't have this problem unless the farmers stop farming/ranchers stop ranching.
Water gets desesed and kills off animals when there are too many of them. Humans get rid of waste products far away from themselves and ship in water from the mountans. We can even purify water that is questionable.
Humans have gone beyond nature and gotten (mostley) outside her power. Our technology has gone beyond natural and given us most of her power.
A woman cannot have a child naturaly, so we go in and take out an egg, fertalize it with her love's sperm, place it back in her. Anyone ever stop to think that maybe there was a reason she shouldn't have children and pass on her genetic code?
In nature only the strong survive, only the ones that can be the strongest can mate, thus keeping the spicies strong. There are not as many desises becuase an animal gets it, it dies. The end.
Humans on the other hand have come up with vacanations for deseses, cures for some, have compleatly taken out some all together. Because of that people that should have died because of a weakness has lived to cary on there weak genes, therefor making the race weaker. There are more desese in humans than any other animal, and this is why.
I'm not saying that people that get sick should die, I'm just saying that this is how nature is, and we have underminded it's plan.

I love technology, and I realize that it makes everyone's life better and more comfortable, but it still isn't natural. Hell, if it wasn't for technology, I'd be dead... I would have died durring child birth without technology-or at least had broken hips=no food=death in the wild...

We can also use that same technology to undo the hurt we've done. Solar-powered stuff isn't exactly natural, but it certainly helps to rectify the hurt caused by dependence on fossil fuels, natural gas, etc. We can't unlearn the wheel, so instead of decrying the evils of technology, we should be working to make it better. And I don't know, I don't think humans are quite beyond the scope of nature as we think. There are plenty of things just waiting to kill us off: cancer, AIDS, wars, accidents...

You might want to Google technopaganism. That's been a big influence on my belief system.

ooh, I didn't even know that technopaganism existed! Really interesting... it's kinda cool how it's such a new thing as well, people are finding their own path through it as there's no real historical background... then again I suppose it's taking the history and traditions of other beliefs and practices then just using them to define this new medium and also using the capabilities of technology to advance them in a slightly different direction. Coolio!
The thing that worries me about technology is we just don't know when to stop. If someone can invent something, then someone somewhere will do it regardless of ethics. With everything that can be used for positive actions, there is always equal possibilities for negative destructive uses.

Yes, but it is also a good thing to remember the roots and although we don't grow the food, and depend on nature as much, we also must remember that if there is a bad enough lack of rain, we will go hungry, as the farmers won't be able to grow things... we are not as dependent, but we still are dependant... it's kinda like a seventeen year old living at home with parents... they know how to take care of themselves (sort of) but still lean a bit on parents, even if they do have a job and a car and everything... they still need them, they just aren't as dependent on them as say a new born baby. 3nodding