Now, what if the land itself were speaking to you? What if creatures opted for extinction rather than submit to the type of world you’re trying to order around you? What if the planet were changing its climate in an attempt to get you to stop enslaving it? What if the planet and its inhabitants were doing everything they could to tell you that they do not like what you’re doing, that they do not want to live this way? Would you be able to hear them?

I didn’t think so.

— culture-make-believe