Technology alone was unable to dislodge her. “The crews working to dig out the ship were largely dependent on forces beyond their control: the moon and the tides,” the New York Times wrote about the all-out effort to free the Ever Given, one of the world’s largest container ships that was stuck sideways in the sandy banks of the Suez Canal for almost a week, holding up hundreds of other cargo ships with billions of dollars worth of goods and livestock from pursuing their journeys through the canal to their destinations to keep global markets humming.

The message is a crucial one, one we seem to need to hear over and over and over again. Whether we’re talking about climate change, growing food, protecting ourselves from viruses, or lifestyle improvements in general, technology applied in a vacuum has often far reaching negative side effects which we seem unable to predict. Only in cooperation and harmony with nature can science and technology achieve true heights, as the crews freeing the Ever Given realized.

We must finally integrate science, technology and nature into a holistic, sacred and mutually inclusive whole to evolve into a better incarnation of ourselves and assure the survival of our species.