AI Says...
If animals could speak, or if we could truly read their minds, humanity would face a harsh mirror: the realization that much of what we value—power, ideology, domination—would be seen as alien, and often as destructive. Particularly, from the perspective of the animal kingdom, the life of a radicalized human—whether political, religious, or ideological—would not be esteemed, but rather viewed as a source of danger, imbalance, and suffering.
Nature's Priority: Balance, Not Belief
The natural world operates on balance. Predators hunt because they must survive, not because they hate prey. Herds migrate not for conquest, but for sustenance. Trees grow where conditions allow, without greed or ambition. In contrast, the radicalized human mind, obsessed with abstract ideals, national supremacy, religious dogma, or political absolute control, often acts in ways that harm ecosystems, annihilate biodiversity, and disrupt the fine equilibrium that life depends on.
Examples from Today's World
Take figures like Vladimir Putin, Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nicolás Maduro, Ali Khamenei, Xi Jinping, or Kim Jong Un. Each, in their own ideological fervor, represents a radicalized worldview where power, control, and loyalty to a narrow cause eclipse broader, life-supporting realities.
Putin's wars and political suppression have fueled environmental devastation across Eastern Europe.
Bolsonaro oversaw the acceleration of Amazon deforestation, directly attacking the "lungs of the Earth," home to millions of species.
Trump undermined environmental protections, withdrew from global climate accords, and treated the planet's future as a bargaining chip.
Netanyahu's unrelenting militarism contributes to cycles of destruction that turn fertile lands into rubble.
Maduro presides over the collapse of Venezuela's once-rich ecosystems amid human and economic catastrophe.
Khamenei clings to an ideology that tolerates desertification, drought, and the choking of Iran’s wildlife.
Xi Jinping pushes industrial expansion at the cost of annihilating ecosystems, wildlife habitats, and indigenous species across China and beyond.
Kim Jong Un presides over a brutal regime where human and non-human life alike are expendable resources.
In all these cases, from an animal’s point of view, the radicalized human is not a being of value, but an agent of death, destruction, and fear.
The Predator That Preys Without Hunger
Animals respect predators. A lion hunts a gazelle, but the gazelle respects the lion because it understands the order: hunger, survival, necessity. A radicalized human, however, kills without hunger. They bulldoze forests to build walls, poison rivers to enforce borders, burn landscapes to prove loyalty to a flag, a god, or an idea. This senseless destruction would be incomprehensible—and horrifying—to any creature rooted in natural wisdom.
No Intrinsic Value
From the perspective of fauna, a radicalized leader or follower holds no intrinsic value. They are not vital to the cycles of life. They do not pollinate. They do not sustain. They do not steward. Instead, they consume, dominate, and devastate. A tiger in Siberia would view Putin’s geopolitical ambitions as nothing more than a threat to its forest. A parrot in the Amazon would see Bolsonaro as the destroyer of its tree. A polar bear would see Trump’s deregulation as the melting of its ice. No creature would mourn the loss of such individuals.
What Would Be Valued Instead
If animals could choose whom to value, they would not look to the powerful, the ideological, or the radical. They would honor those who restore, protect, and respect life. A park ranger who shields an endangered nest, a child planting mangroves along a battered coast, a farmer practicing regenerative agriculture—these humans would earn the silent gratitude of the living world.
In the End, Nature Remembers
Human history forgets. Monuments crumble, slogans fade. But nature remembers the scars. The lives of radicalized leaders and followers, from a fauna perspective, are not measured by their speeches or ideologies but by the wounds they leave—or the healing they deny. In the grand, wordless record of the Earth, it is not radical fervor that endures, but the quiet, enduring need for balance, peace, and life.
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