Recalling the documentary A Life on This Planet, I am absolutely fascinated about David Attenborough’s life story where he got to experience drastic changes of the environment and biodiversity throughout his lifetime. I was very impressed by one scene in this documentary where humans had a large scale of whale hunting. But when people started to hear the sound of the whales and realize whale populations are becoming smaller and smaller, hunting whales started to become a crime instead of harvest.
Thus I envision a world where we could learn more about the animals before we hunt them for certain purposes, so as to make the least impact of human intervention to the natural environment. We have the intelligence of making drastic changes to the environment, but we also need the wisdom to be able to coexist with it. In order to do that, I hope we could learn more from the communities including Indigenous people on how to live in a more sustainable way.
I agree there's much we can learn about sustainable ways of interacting with local ecology through Traditional Ecological Knowledge!
Great post! I hope there is a harmonious future for all creatures.