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A variant that applies cyber-nihilist logic directly to ecosystems, arguing that the fusion of technology and the natural world will produce a new, inhuman ecology that is fundamentally hostile to hierarchical life. Drawing on cyber-nihilism's recognition that "Nature is neither static nor kind," ecological cyber-nihilism welcomes the transformation of the biosphere through technological contamination—genetic engineering, synthetic biology, networked environmental manipulation—as a force that will destroy the conditions for civilization and perhaps all complex life. It rejects the primitivist desire to "save Nature" as a romantic fantasy; the Nature to be saved was always a human construct. Instead, it embraces the emergence of a post-natural, post-human ecology that no system of control could survive. This variant finds grim poetry in events like the "death" of the Great Barrier Reef, seeing them not as tragedies but as milestones in the planet's transition to an inhuman state.
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