COMPLEMENT NOT REPLACEMENT

The phrase “Natural is the best” is something that shouldn’t be taken literally except it is used in a context. It is just a phrase to stress how important natural resources are compared to artificial things. Of course there are times when artificial things come in more handy than natural things but then, there is no artificial product that doesn’t come from the natural one. In our world today, we have drifted so far from the natural things that we have been blessed with and we are trying to survive solely on just the artificial things and the more we try this, the more we see how unwise it is for us to do so and hence one of the reasons why people say “Natural is the best”.

For the hivelearners topic for this week, we are asked to talk about whether or not Natural is right. As humans, we have evolved in so many ways and one of them is the understanding of how important natural resources are to us. But over the years, we start having this fear of these natural resources running out and we start thinking of a way to sustain these resources and that is where making artificial resources came into play. In the course of this, we also discovered some dangers that we are exposed to when we just make use of natural resources just the way they are.

The question of whether or not natural is truly the best is something that I don’t think has a yes or no answer just yet because first of all, what exactly do we refer to as natural? Because most of the artificial things we have today are made from the natural things. So if the natural things don’t exist, the artificial things won’t stand a chance either. Take for instance AI. AI is created in a way to mimic humans but this time, they are more perfect than us humans. But the brain behind creating them or the idea behind it was from humans. So if as humans we never thought of creating something like that, it won’t have existed in the first place.

So having that in mind, we will understand that both natural and artificial complement themselves and they are not meant to replace themselves. Just because I chose to use a juice extractor rather than licking my oranges does not change the effect it has on our body. Instead, it only saves me the stress of having to be too careful and also to save me time. But yes, there are some people that go as far as to adding too many unwanted things into juice extracts as preservatives today which makes it unhealthy and at that point, we say natural is best. It’s just like sticking to the manual.

I think I heard one time that scientists are working on producing beef from just the tissues from the animal rather than making the animals mate to produce more offspring. For me, this is not ideal. I’d rather eat meat from the actual animals than from such. But the goal is to make sure that we don’t run out of animals due to the high consumption rate. But then, it is just somehow to accept something like that because it will be more harmful than not to humanity. Hence, we fall back to Natural is the best.

These are just few of the many reasons to explain to us why we say that. It is both true and also not true depending on the context and specific situation. When most people use that phrase, it is usually in context and over time, we have come to understand that natural has more advantages to us as humans than the artificial ones but they are not competing, they are just in place to make things easier for us.

Thank you for reading through. ❤️