End of nature

Name(s): 
Death of nature
Claim 
Humanity's comforting sense of the performance of the natural world is the result of a subtly warped perspective. Total changes in the natural world can now happen during the lifetime of a person. Without recognizing it, humanity has already stepped over the threshold of such a change and has reached the end of nature, namely the end of that set of human ideas about the world and man's place in it. The death of these ideas began with definite changes in the reality of the natural world -- changes which can be measured. With increasing frequency such changes will clash with man's perceptions until finally the mistaken sense of nature as eternal and separate will no longer be tenable.
Broader 
False assumptions on sustainable development
Narrower 
Transgression of natural thresholds
Related 
End of history
End of the world
Human exceptionalism
Unsustainable agricultural development
Aggravated by 
Lack of care
Fear of nature
Human domination of nature
Natural environment degradation
Undervaluation of natural capital
Disregard for intrinsic value of nature
Irreversible depletion of natural capital
Reduced by 
Inevitable destruction of humanity by the natural environment
Value(s) 
Death
Reference(s) 
Merchant, Carolyn: The Death of Nature: women, ecology and the scientific revolution
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems