When you speak about difficult emotions to attain, you describe something very close to the state I'm in when performing or even just playing music. For lack of a better term, it's a very Zen state of being. It's something which gives me the greatest joy and something that I could not do if I had to live in a society where I had to limit myself to producing on food shelter or clothing.
Incidentally, dunno if this has been mentioned or not, but humans have been wrecking ecosystems since long before they invented civilization and we're not the only species that does it either. That's life for you and it doesn't give a fuck about ecosystems. That is a short hand concept we like to use to make things easier to study. There are no ecosystems. There is the planet and there are billions of organisms all trying to co-exist in it. When you get friction, you get competition and when you get competition, you get winners and losers. That's evolution and it doesn't care what wins in the end.
Incidentally, dunno if this has been mentioned or not, but humans have been wrecking ecosystems since long before they invented civilization and we're not the only species that does it either. That's life for you and it doesn't give a fuck about ecosystems. That is a short hand concept we like to use to make things easier to study. There are no ecosystems. There is the planet and there are billions of organisms all trying to co-exist in it. When you get friction, you get competition and when you get competition, you get winners and losers. That's evolution and it doesn't care what wins in the end.