I agree with the writer that making instinctive reflex reactions, many times motivated by personal or political agendas, focusing on the details instead of the big picture is more harmful than helpful.

What such events as the recent hurricane should do to us is to initiate self examination.

At least to examine how much general human activity might be against nature's laws, how much we are in balance with the vast ecosystem around us.

And here comes the real issue.

Most of humans do not think about nature around us as obligatory. Somehow we managed to convince ourselves that we are outside of this system, that humans are independent and can do whatever they want. We devise our own laws, principles, we build systems that are disconnected from nature and expect them to work and prosper.

At the same time if we examine our whole history, all our inventions, innovations, all we did was copying nature, using its templates, materials to shape them into different forms for our own use.

The human body, the human psyche is operating based on the same natural laws and principles anything else operates on in the interconnected system.

Humans are part of the system, we are simply unable to exist outside of it, ignoring its conditions.

Despite all this, which should be clearly understood even based on all the modern classical sciences, humanity is still pursuing a totally unnatural and more and more clearly unsustainable socio-economic system.

While all the living species among themselves and between species comprise a complementing, self-sustaining chain, humans even within human society are each other's predators, we can only find happiness on top of someone else's misery, if it is cannot be good for me at least the others also should suffer, during our history and even today we wipe out whole nations, cultures either physically or ideologically.

On top of this the whole human system is based on a cancer like behavior, exploiting as much as possible from each other and from the environment, following the present constant quantitative growth economic model based on absolutely unnecessary and harmful overproduction and overconsumption.

What we ignore here is that the vast natural ecosystem around us is not "mindless" it has its laws and principles exactly in order to maintain balance, homeostasis, to maintain life and development. And humanity is a foreign body in this huge, otherwise harmonious system.

And it is not even like "nature taking revenge", but simply by ignoring the laws around we ourselves commit suicide as a person jumping off from a tall building ignoring the force of gravity.

It is completely irrelevant what people think about climate change or global warming, if we do not learn the natural laws and principles sustaining the whole Universe we simply destroy ourselves, and it is much closer than people think, as the deepening global crisis shows we do not need nature to finish us off, the collapsing economical and financial system will bury us much sooner.

At the moment we want to know nature to exploit it for our own selfish use. Instead we need to know nature's laws in order to adapt to it, immerse ourselves into it in harmony, to become conscious partners with it.