I admit this isn't my argument, but since you've decided to post this
over the public board, I can't help but query into what you've written,
perhaps you can provide me with the answer.

I am curious as to what you meant by "but perhaps a hurt Nature will
not?" Don't you find it a little presumptuous to believe that without
your interference, mere mortals, the awesome powers of nature can't go
on? I am sure, before the Lord Varian decided to put mankind upon the
earth the world encountered many problems, which with a world's patience
it slowly corrected.

I personally take a pragmatist view of the world, and believe you could,
if you had a lot of time, build over every inch of nature, but
eventually, nature would reclaim its own. It might take two hundred
years, by which time you and your children and probably their children
will have left the world, but two hundred years to our ancient earth is
insignificant, though it would certainly be significant for us, us
people. So perhaps what you mean is:

"But perhaps a hurt Nature will not, at least not in time for me to
continue reaping its benefits"

Penned by my hand on the 2nd of Khepary, in the year 96 MA.