Living indoors (and otherwise separated from the natural environment) is killing us

We must pusure a societal policy of reforestation and re-naturalization if we and the Earth are to survive.

Humans, like the rest of living beings on the planet, are naturally designed to live outdoors. We may spend limited time in rudimentary shelters like igloos or indigenous teepees, but the bulk of our existence is, or was, spent in communion with the fresh air, feeling the wind and sun on our bodies, and otherwise livng in direct co-existence with the wider cacophony of life.(1)

The modern Human spends increasingly large amounts of time in indoor environments that may or may not have windows, and even those are only open part of the time. This trend has accelerated to an extreme degree both in the digital era broadly, and in particular in the past three years, of people spending increasingly all of their time indoors, which translates to increasingly less opportunity to breathe the free/fresh air.

On top of this, the spaces we all live in are increasingly disconnected from the natural ecological environment, to the extreme of urban cities where the destruction of said environment is total(2). Aside from the devastating overall impact of such a profound genocide of life on the beings living in such an environment, the loss of the forest would lead to a further reduction of oxygen available in the living environment.

Combine this with industrial pollution and you have a situation in which the air quality has been so reduced that the living beings subject to living in such an environment are extremely negatively impacted.

This is one of the many reasons why the blistering pace of daily global deforestation must be brought to a grinding halt; we are fast approaching a point where there will no longer be any such environments on planet Earth, to the great peril of us all.

In the increasingly many lands where the natural environment has been nearly if not completely destroyed, we must make every effort to hold as a critical priority the reforestation and re-naturalization of the land, not only for our own benefit as a species but so as to replenish the global living space as a common environment to be shared equally by all beings, rather than be dominated by humans(3).

Footnotes

(1)-The great multitude of humans (inidigenous) and other living beings that once populated North America and the rest of the world could attest to this, had they not been largely genocided and otherwise culturally destroyed in the past few hundred years as a result of the activities of European monarchical colonialism. (See also - Lakota documentary -

(2)-This equates to the total genocide of life in that environment. We are all heavily indoctrinated into a speciesist mindset from birth (ie, human dominion over all of planet Earth); if one can expunge said indoctrination from one's being and return to a philosophy of viewing all life, and all of creation, as equally sacred, holy and deserving of the same rights and privileges, then one will surely recoil with horror at the level of ecological destruction which has occurred on the planet even in the past 100 years, and continues as a bristling pace.

I'll also note that in concert with the rapid pace of ecological devastation, so-called 'urbanization' is occurring at an equally brisk rate.

Could we be approaching a point where the entire planet is transformed into one giant city ala Star Wars' prequel-trilogy planet Coruscant? It would certainly appear that way, to the anguish of Mother Earth and the great detriment of her and all her species.

(3)-Humans themselves are dominated by the levers of global industrial capitalism (in particular - money, private property and the stock market). The way I would describe it is that a 'world order' has been created such that humans (embodied in the global labor force or workforce) are made to serve as the master-slave and are used to carry out the hard labor of enslaving the rest of the planet. It can be much easier to understand the origins of the capitalist world conquering-machine after reading a book called 'Caliban and the Witch' by Sylvia Federici, wherein the author (usimg exhaustive sourcing) describes the brutal implementation of early-stage capitalism in medieval Europe. Mainstream history acknowledges that such population was subsequently used to faciliate the assimilation or otherwise conquering and genocide of the planet - that is to say, through the activities of European, monarchical, industrial Capitalism. (Link to book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/403846.Caliban_and_the_Witch)