Regardless of where we live, Jones continues, we share one essential characteristic: "We're no longer able to have a direct experience of nature."

It's not that nature is dead; it has been replaced by technology, which reveals natural processes as it replaces them.

"Technology teases nature into unhiddenness," says Jones, quoting German philosopher Martin Heidegger. "The world is not available to us except through technology; technology makes things visible."

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