Jung once suggested that our lack of connection to our spirit might eventually cause our own downfall. Most people have felt the calmness and joy of sitting under a tree in the park and listening to the absence of noise. This is the kind of connection Los Angeles is missing as a city. Most people do not realize that they are a part of nature, and that trying to control it will cause conflict. The more humans try to control nature, the more trouble they will have: building another debris basin might just increase debris flow, and building another house in the middle of the alluvial fan might just burn down. As seen by John McPhee in "Los Angeles Against the Mountains" human beings" attempts to control nature will start a pattern of destruction, ending with irreversible harm to mankind. .
Building a man-made environment in Southern California often destroys the natural cycle of life. Everything in nature is intertwined on some level. Plants might not seem essential to our lives, but plants have the ability to produce oxygen, and everything else on Earth needs oxygen to survive. Therefore, vegetation does more than just root mountainsides into place; it serves as the main food source and oxygen provider for woodland and other creatures. Without it, everything would die off. By spreading our suburbs further into untouched nature, we effectively reduce the amount available for oxygen production, thus raising smog levels and changing weather.
conditions. One earlier example of humans destroying the cycle of life is the extinction of orange groves that used to be a big part of California. As more people moved to the Golden State, more house developments were needed. Oranges did not seem that important any more and they were expensive to take care off. Of course, without finding out how that would affect the rest of nature, people in Southern California decided to make changes that would suit their everyday needs.
