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Aperture | January 31, 2026



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Nature is a place of spirituality for many, yet because of the climate crisis; nature as we know it is dying out. We’re watching life on Earth disappear right before our eyes. This loss of nature might make us feel like we’re losing something essential to our humanity. Is there a correlation between our suffering planet and our spiritual despair? Let’s learn how to create a better relationship with nature.

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  2. @moonagedunemage

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    I agree with the thesis statement of this video, but almost everything else stated seems to have nothing to do with the point—and the criticisms directed at finding meaning or solace in a walk in wild woods seem to be there only to hook the audience with a controversial perspective, when ultimately they have no payoff or connection to the conclusion. A forest is still better than a park; this video says that's not true, but then gives no explanation to support that claim; just because a park is still a valid example of nature doesn't mean it doesn't pail in comparison to one where there is wilderness as far as the eye can see, as opposed to hearing the rumbling engines of deadly metallic horses every time you try to have your picnic in peace. If society is actively trying to push out every molecule of non-Party-approved morsels of nature from its environment, then yeah, I'd say 'the world outside our front door' gets pretty cheap, non-spiritually-fulfilling, and disconnected from the global system of life—we're not quite there yet, but we're getting closer to this artificial dystopia with every passing hour. Perhaps this video would have had some merit 200 years ago, when the ground was still soft and the wolves were a stone's throw away from the village's edge. I agree that a pigeon in a park tree and a backyard cicada bunch are still 'nature', but they are simply the cracks in society, the bits of wilderness that have been allowed to or by accident remain. True, unobstructed nature (now I don't mean untouched by humans, I mean untouched by bleach and cement), will always be superior to a city where the dirt has been painted over with tar and the air with poison—in which the very stars that define our night sky have been wiped clean from the canvas of our darkest hours. No matter how many acorns the janitor forgets to sweep off the office floor—the forest has always ten thousand more.

  4. @Waffles4903

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    One thing I’ve considered is that religion tends to form a very human-centered idea. Christianity is all about what God can do for US. When the argument for selfless religion comes to the forefront of societal ideology, it seems like no one ever thinks of reality without first thinking of themselves. After all, what can the Universe do for you? Indigenous peoples' beliefs and spiritual alignment with nature are a great example of what kind of ideology will procreate and spread wisdom and peace across all of humanity. The selfish, close-minded nature of European colonists cannot work. Listen to the wisdom of Indigenous peoples across the entire world, and maybe, our capitalistic self-centered Western world can fix what we’ve hurt.

  5. @pumpkingamebox

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    I disagree that saying “nature” somehow hurts our connection and understanding of it. Because me saying animals must then hurt mammals and fish. That is a bad point to make.
    The rest of the video is fine.

  10. @persondude2505

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    About a year ago I moved from the low income neighborhood I grew up in to one in a rich suburb. I’ve been struggling with a sense of being able to connect with my new environment, even though it is objectively better, and ironically much closer to the local state parks. I think this video perfectly captures the disconnect I feel from this new place. I’d spent years finding the beauty in my old neighborhood, as ugly as it might be considered, but now have been ripped from my ‘nature’.

  11. @BigTrev2xx

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    I feel like my mind is programmed to watch tons of his videos literally EVERY day I don’t miss a day. He’s always #1 Top video on my feed never seen his channel not.

  12. @TheHealthConscounist

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    We say nature as if it was a separate thing from us… but we ARE nature… we are part of it… I think that we as humans are nature gone a little too efficient at extracting resources… we have become a virus that spreads and consumes all resources in its path

  16. @freebie808

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    END ALL CLIMATE CONTROL!!
    Weather manipulation is a weaponized tool used since 1913.🇨🇦 2010:' true North strong and free'
    Canada 2020::North!That makes no sense, we took two years of the world being closed. And sat at home doing f*** all and now the world is somehow in worst shape climate speakingEND THE WEF, I.M.F, NATO, U.N, THE FED, BIG TECH, BIG DATA!

  25. @Jay-ate-a-bug

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    Nature isn't dying. It is just adapting to changing conditions. It is incorporating plastic into itself, toxic chemicals into its oceans, and ridding itself of the living organisms that have plagued its surface for several billion years.

    Stop calling it a climate crisis. We aren't saving the planet. We should call it an extinction event. We want to save ourselves. The planet could become a cold lifeless rock and it doesn't care. We care because we cannot live that way. Drop the Hubris, we are going away, not the planet.

  28. @ssgssbeet4133

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    Nature seems to destroy itself over and over, the great dying, mass extinctions etc. but always fixes itself even through tremendous meteor strikes and tons of volcanos replacing the atmosphere with ash and smoke, its just what nature does, if it wasnt us itd be something else trust me

  32. @moonagedunemage

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    I agree with the thesis statement of this video, but almost everything else stated seems to have nothing to do with the point—and the criticisms directed at finding meaning or solace in a walk in wild woods seem to be there only to hook the audience with a controversial perspective, when ultimately they have no payoff or connection to the conclusion. A forest is still better than a park; this video says that's not true, but then gives no explanation to support that claim; just because a park is still a valid example of nature doesn't mean it doesn't pail in comparison to one where there is wilderness as far as the eye can see, as opposed to hearing the rumbling engines of deadly metallic horses every time you try to have your picnic in peace. If society is actively trying to push out every molecule of non-Party-approved morsels of nature from its environment, then yeah, I'd day 'the world outside our front door' gets pretty cheap, non-spiritually-fulfilling, and disconnected from the global system of life—we're not quite there yet, but we're getting closer to this artificial dystopia with every passing hour. Perhaps this video would have had some merit 200 years ago, when the ground was still soft and the wolves were a stones throw away from the village's edge. I agree that a pigeon in a park tree and a backyard cicada bunch are still 'nature', but they are simply the cracks in society, the bits of wilderness that have been allowed to or by accident remain. True, unobstructed nature (now I don't mean untouched by humans, I mean untouched by bleach and cement), will always be superior to a city where the dirt has been painted over with tar and the air with poison—in which the very stars that define our night sky have been wiped clean from the canvas of our darkest hours. No matter how many acorns the janitor forgets to sweep off the office floor—the forest has always ten thousand more.

  34. @Haltedgrowth

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    What if I told you we are a herd of animals who created very rare gasses especially when in the state of distress.
    Liquify the air. Heat up the liquid air.
    As the gasses return to air they are harvested and used for life beyond the viel. We are the fuel for inner planetary travel and we are also the providers of heat.
    So careful with ur ink n how you think because ur creating ur own demise by not seeing with your inner eyes.

  37. @kayskreed

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    The biggest mistake that humanity has made, notably since the industrial revolution and rise of capitalism, is the artificial separation between "Man" and "Nature". In reality, that distinction is merely an illusion. There is no Man without Nature. We simply would not exist otherwise. I think part of the solution is to do away with that false dichotomy, to realize that Nature = Humanity and Humanity = Nature, and therefore to save one is to save both. The closer we identify ourselves to all forms of life, to the wilderness, to the cosmos, the more invested we will become in preserving it for we are "it".

  41. @Retribution_X

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    I believe that we are now currently living through the next “mass extinction” event, that has happened MANY times in the Earths past.. & there’s a sort of cyclical nature to these things; be it smaller, or larger earth changes, & extinction events.

    (FYI: did you know that CO2 is what plants breath, & used to grow even better? Think of the Jurassic period; there was FAR MORE CO2 in the atmosphere than there currently is now, & the flora was INSANELY bigger.)

  42. @asicshot

    January 31, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    The shape of a tree can show us where nature is. Observe the shape as the branches extend into smaller and smaller ones just like our lungs. As you breathe just observe this exchange taking place. Just observe this one process for long enough and any imaginary divide will begin to fade.

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