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It's a cycle. One animal depends on another animal for its existence. If one happens to become extinct, it can cause problems for another and so on and so on.
I know certain parts of Japan were once infested with a highly poisonous snake called a habu. Mongoose were brought in to the island (from Australia I believe), and while they didn't eliminate the habu they did assist in a dropping number in human deaths from the habu's venomous bite. The mongoose were killing them. Even a cute little animal that we observe as doing little more than "shitting and procreating" can serve a larger purpose.
Nature is a wonderful thing. It really is quite miraculous that we as well as all other plant and animal life are here. For all we know planet Earth is the only planet currently able to support life. And this universe is a huge place, and one that is constantly expanding at that. If anything, it saddens me that more people are not interested in nature. People are more prone to pay attention to pseudo scientific ideas than things we can actually see. The stars are full of wonder, as are the tiniest bacteria and everything in between. We still don't understand everything and perhaps we never will. But, we know it's there. Ghosts and gods and extraterrestrials are another story.
To think that the "African bush is dumb" just because it's not so hospitable to human beings is an extremely selfish way of thinking, primitive even. We have learned so much about the planet we live on as well as ourselves from such places. For all I know places such as this offer a place to test ideas that may save the human race one day, who knows?
And nature does give a fuck about us. We possibly have the ability to destroy it. We've already destroyed a lot of it in some cases. We also have the ability to aid in sustaining it. Nature, with and within it's self is a very progressive thing. It has been since the big bang. Aspects of us are changing without us taking conscious effort in trying to change them. Evolution, adaptation is fact. Nature doesn't have to think about it, it just does it. Nature has left it's self room for little error. We've fucked up already many times over.
There are places where swine are still depended on as a source of food. There are disabled people that depend on dogs for their own mobility and protection. Both seem worth saving as far as I can see. Of course there are people working on fixing the issues of blindness all together, but there hasn't been much success as of yet.
We will never win over nature. At best, we can find better ways to live with it.
Every place and every animal can and probably does serve some sort of purpose. Just because we can't always see that purpose shouldn't matter. Human beings are not the only creature that matters. Who are you to say that something is dumb just because you clearly fail to understand it?
"Remake nature, harvest it, redesign it, purge it of all useless or inhospitable desolate space or wasted matter. trees help us breath but i know that both the tree and our body can be redesigned and remade completely." Do you even realize what you are saying? In order to go about doing some of these ideas you've proposed, we must first understand whats already here. Also, why change something if it works fine? If anything we must learn to do a better job preserving what is already here. It's worked for over four billion years as is. I think sustaining what is already here is much better (even if not as interesting) as some sci-fi concept of redesigning it.
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