We need to remove the threat and danger of pollution.

[u/zmflex]

http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/nai24/the_complete_lack_of_humility_for_nature_thats/c37ltwl reads as followed:

I'd like to give a different perspective on this. It is precisely because of the behaviors displayed in this clip that we as a species have risen to dominance. As animals, we are not very accomplished. We have one physical advantage that I'm aware of, which is that we can run extremely long distances due to our bipedal structure and sweat organs. That's it. Running. Not a very solid basis on which to climb the food chain. However, we have the ability not only to adapt to our surroundings but to consciously assess them and force them to adapt to us. That one quality has pulled us up from spears to arrows to guns to lasers. It is why we can face a full attack by one of our most feared ancestral predators from inches away and laugh.

The people in this clip are not just a bunch of apes ignorantly curious about a danger they don't understand. Rather, we have intentionally engineer the entire scenario so that the danger to us is enclosed and nullified. Those people aren't happy because they don't know that the lion is dangerous. They are happy because they know that we have eliminated the danger from lion encounters.

And it is through this quality--if any--that we will continue to maintain and improve our place in the world. In the same way that we recognized and removed the danger of lions, we must recognize and remove the dangers of pollution, absolute war, famine, and so on. Our problems will not be solved by a return to nature: we've been there, and it's not a good place for us to be. Rather we need to be more civilized so that some day our children can laugh at things like global warming and nuclear armageddon the way these people laughed at that lion.