Anonymous #1 2w

“infested” as in a species is inherently bad aka shark infested waters, “bogged down”, “wasteland”, “tree-hugger”, “nature is cruel”, “barren”, “unproductive land”, “pest”, and sm more.

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Anonymous OP 2w

With you giving examples I agree wholeheartedly.

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Anonymous OP 2w

this is too woke even for me 😭

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Anonymous #1 2w

I think they actually have a good point of how framing land as “undeveloped” reframes natural areas as being useless. There’s a similar legacy in how we view wetlands as something bad and needing to be drained

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Anonymous OP 2w

I mean some of these words have uses that are pro-environmental too, for example I’d describe Georgia and South Carolina as “infested” with invasive spiders from Japan which harm the local ecosystem by out-competing the native spiders, not because I hate Joro spiders, but because they are bad for the environment in those regions.

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Anonymous #1 2w

Are we supposed to believe nature is fully good? Because if you believe that, then what’s the point for civilizations or ethics. I mean it makes sense that the less pleasant parts of nature would make their way into our speech, I imagine we have been referencing nature in this way this sense we first began speaking

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