"..still be conflict with all other species."

That's a very simplistic and war-driven model by which to view our role in the ecosystem. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. (That's the viewpoint I'm talking about, not necessarily you personally.)

We aren't even really in constant conflict with our own food-species, we have to insure that they survive, and are healthy, as well as the system which all of us depend on.

There is conflict, but as a presently traumatized society, we have been obsessively dwelling on it, and frequently forget how much we are also here only because of cooperative efforts, and from the ways in which we have managed to not entirely decimate the living world.. we just have to identify the positive actions that sustain us AND the natural support systems, and decide which actions, from population to pollution and over-production, over-extraction .. have created the massive problems that put us INTO complete conflict not only with the natural world, but even in conflict with our own survival, it seems.

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There's an old saw that 'You don't have to clean up the river, just stop throwing garbage INTO it.' .. quibbles aside, that's a decent first step, and the improvements would be enormous.

Major up-greenie. I sort of miss the rating system we lost with the latest "improvement".