Because humans are the only sentient, technological species and are unavoidably having big effects on nature, we cannot 'get out of the way'—we are in the driver's seat and obligated to manage nature deliberately, though acting from the wrong (balance-of-nature) mythologies causes more harm than good.

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Daniel Botkin

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to deny that and say well we should get out of the way we can't get out of the way we're in the way there's too many of us so yeah I believe we have to try to do things the unfortunate thing is that we tend to act from these wrong mythologies

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Daniel Botkin on Nature, the Environment and Global Warming 11/26/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/16/2026, 2:13:19 PM

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