the Ape that Ate All

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From an ecological lens, all species have their own ways of acquiring food within their wildscapes. Shifts in the human dietway, from pre-sapiens to today, have correlated with the degree of our increasing use of objects and technologies, which correlated with our invasion, colonization and annihilation of thriving autonomous communities of life. Our foodway has been a major factor driving our adaptation into dominating, ecocidal lifeway.

Do you believe civilization’s hype that humans have been naturally ordained to be the planet’s apex species? How does it feel to you that we human apes impact & dominate every niche of every habitat? How do you see this story ending, this story of the ape that stepped out of nature to rule all? How dark is your rose colored lens?

It’s challenging to retain autonomous relations with other animals when what remains of the wildscape is barely a shadow of itself. But wildness remains. It may be in broken remnants, but it’s alive, struggling, around you and within you. And one day there will be a great return. It won’t be with humans if we cannot adapt to return with it, but it will return.