Why does mother nature fight back since it is not a living thing and have no feelings?
caltam84 asked:
I heard a saying called “don’t mess with nature or else she’ll fight back with brutal fury.”
If humans pollute the environment and damage the ecosystem, nature fights back and will win. Or fighting back a hurricane or tsunami. For example, there is acid rain or weather will change harshly for us.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:03 am
“Nature” is (almost) certainly NOT an Intelligent, purposeful being. Some older philosophies personified nature, ie “Gia”, Western theology sees nature as the created product of a personal god.
Science, since the 1400’s, sees nature as the sum of what exist and acts in a very complex way based on a few simple rules or “Laws of Nature”
“Nature fights back” is a way of saying that actions have consequences. Example: burn more carbon fuel, raise the CO2 levels and the global temperature rises. We humans might not like it but “Nature” does not care.
“Chaos Theory’ says very small changes can have large and unpredictable results.