God gave us dominion over the earth. He literally tells us to rule over it, cultivate it, and trample it down.
“Mother” nature- whom yall love so much you refer to it as your mother- was put here to serve US, not the other way around.
A man-made metroplois like NYC is just as natural to our environment which was given to us, as is a beaver dam in a river. What we have to be careful about, however, is abusing the earth.
Dumping millions of pounds of trash into ocean waters, and such. That’s abuse.
Deforestation for needed human progression, is not. And a lot of people don’t want to hear that.
It makes them feel more artistic and starbucks-ish to go around worshipping the Universe and pretending “the universe” has powers, and can hear you, and it’s more fun of them to refer to nature as their “mother”…but none of that is reality.