Until quite recently, all human cultures have been built on the concept of unity with the natural world. In fact, interdependence is one of our oldest ideas, one that’s common to indigenous people in Australia, Africa, and North and South America. It’s been our default view for the overwhelming majority of human history. It’s only been in the last

Finally, for all that we have discovered about the rest of nature, most of it remains a vast library of unread, even unknown books, full of undiscovered medicines, materials, tools and models for engineering. Biodiversity loss is thus an act of cultural vandalism and loss of knowledge greater than the burning of the Library of Alexandria.