August 2026

We Removed the Predator, But We Kept the Fear For much of human history, fear had a fairly clear purpose: to keep us alive. There were animals capable of killing us, unknown territories, diseases we could not understand, scarcity of food, extreme changes in climate and threats that could appear without warning. The body learned

We often speak about the need to reconnect with nature, and for a long time I used that expression without questioning it. Recently, however, I have started to wonder whether the language itself contains part of the problem. To reconnect implies that a separation has already taken place, that nature exists somewhere outside us and