Beyond The Goddess Issue #2 June 2023

Humanity, A Kestyone Species? written by Wayra A. Klocker Gregori @cristalina_starr Humanity isn’t a keystone species, we destroy and wound the earth. Slowly killing off our chance to survive as a species, and doing harm to everything and all creatures around us. We saw it ourselves during the pandemic. As more people stayed home, we saw entire bodies of water once filled to the brim with pollution and gunk clear out, as animals filled the streets and streams. In other words, we saw nature creep back in, and start reclaiming itself.

The earth would be better off without us. This is the belief that most of us hold tightly to our hearts and minds, and it’s hard for us to imagine that it’s wrong. But what if I told you that we are, indeed, a keystone species? What’s killing our planet and all life around us isn’t us ourselves, it’s our systems. We hold a lot of power in the way we live and do things. We are literally shaping, changing, and bending our planet's ecosystems depending on our choices, how we live, and how our technology works in relation to the planet’s environment. Which, of course, could backfire on us in the long run if it isn’t done right.

What if I told you that there have been entire civilizations and Indiginous tribes living and working in harmony with nature, growing food in regenerative ways, and easily feeding the dense populations of people they had with those methods? They have brought back biodiversity; made dry, uninhabitable lands rich in nutrients and soil that they could easily grow food on and brought back plants, animals, and vegetation.

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