The Western-lifestyle makes it all-too-easy to take nature for granted. All mammals share the same underlying physiology, but somehow humans are so caught up thinking big thoughts with their big minds that they’ve come to believe that they’re different from everything else around them. Sure we can build skyscrapers, fly airplanes and simply turn up the thermostat to combat the cold, but it turns out that the technologies that we believe are our greatest strengths are also our most tenacious crutches. The things we have made to keep us comfortable are making us weak.
