Artificiality doesn't just damage the environment—it fundamentally transforms it in ways incompatible with life's regulatory processes. It creates conditions where human biological needs cannot be met. We evolved for hundreds of thousands of years in close relation with wild ecosystems. Our senses, perceptions, social bonds, movement patterns, sleep cycles, nutritional requirements—all shaped by that world.
Artificial systems sever these connections. Industrial food depletes soil and produces nutritionally deficient calories. Urban environments deprive us of natural light, movement, and community. Sedentary work contradicts our physical needs. Social media replaces authentic bonds with hollow interactions. Surveillance and control replace autonomy. The result: epidemics of chronic disease, mental disorders, social fragmentation, and existential emptiness.
But the trajectory doesn't stop with human suffering. Artificiality systematically destroys the living world itself. Wild animals vanish. Ancient forests fall. Soils turn to dust. Oceans die. Entire ecosystems collapse. We are living through the sixth mass extinction—not from malice or failure, but as the inevitable result of the artificial trajectory.
For the first time in history, we can see where this leads—and that visibility changes everything. Understanding the pattern reveals possibilities our ancestors could never perceive.
Two paths lie before us: