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In the end, the extended eco-community worldview imperative entails a duty to protect all of the world’s Natural biological and non-biological material systems (such as earth, air, and water) according to our resources. Since this duty extends only to humans, this account is anthropocentric. And though the shared community worldview imperatives (in their various forms) emphasize the communal duties incurred, still because human communities are comprised of many individual humans, these duties apply to each individual within the community via my personhood account, the personal worldview imperative.
This constitutes the definition of Nature within the context of community dynamics (ti esti).
Part II: Why Should We Care?
The Ethical Constraints on Interfering with Nature.
1 There are two sorts of understandings of N/nature: (a) nature which refers to individuals (tokens) and (b) Nature which refers to larger, general groups (types)32—A(ssertion).
2 The systemic, operational mechanisms of both nature and Nature are intricate, complex, and difficult fully to understand—F(act).