Noospheric Realignment with Gaia!

It's been speculated that humans may have lost some aspect of mental functioning or perceptive capabilities when we developed spoken (and later written) language. Could we have severed our Gaian awareness?

Many in this day and age tend to hold and anthropocentric world view, claiming that we are superior to the beings of the wilderness. But have our capabilities to utilize technology and communication stripped us of a more vital aspect of existence?

Humans may have developed what appear to be greater capabilities or higher levels of functioning than our companions in the animal kingdom, but did we pass up our chance to flourish by finding a way to escape the discomforts of being cultivated by Gaia. Could it be that our 'convenient luxuries' weaken us as technology begins to do the work for us (leaving us free to be idle and complacent)?

Creation is more often than not a very effortful process, whereas destruction tends to be relatively effortless. Building something to stand strong and often last takes hard work but demolishing a thing usually takes little time at all. Have our great achievements come about so rapidly due to the ease of destructiveness (a crutch that we picked up after having lost our connection with nature)? Has our lack of holistic vision and foresight allowed us to make unsound progress?

The time has come for us to realign our progress with the harmonic balance of nature in a way that can be sustained.

I see the wilderness as a tree that grew up into magnificence and blossomed abundantly and mankind as a vine that came from the same ground that wilderness sprouted from. We have used this tree to climb up on and spread our tendrils about so that we may rise up. But in order to do so, we are strangling the splendorful radiance of wilderness. If we continue on the path we are set out on, we will destroy the very thing that supports us and come crashing down along with it.

Would it not be in our interest to sprout a sturdier foundation for ourselves and thus cease the gradual annihilation of our sustainer? I believe this sprout has already taken root and that we are now at a crucial stage to nurture it, that it may blossom. We may have to lop off some of our branches so that our newly sprouting foundation can be supported by our root system, but progress cannot be made without sacrifice. As we carry through and fortify our mutually arising with nature, we can begin to do so in a way that doesn't suffocate it but on the contrary supports it.

The question is; can we truly nurture Gaia while maintaining isolation from her in our self imposed cages of sterility and comfort? Perhaps our very retreat is the source of our folly. It may be that humanity is really a shrub that has overextended its bounds by trying to become a vine. Or perhaps the tree of wilderness is bound to be blown down by the forces of nature and we are here to strengthen it by realigning and advancing our capabilities, synchronizing and integrating them with nature.

No matter what the case, humanity is at the brink of metamorphosing into a new stage. Will we create a dystopia out of negligence or will we cultivate a utopia in returning Gaia's benevolence?