But Eden believes it is better to adapt the machines to the world than to adapt the world to the machines. The environmental degradation seen all over the world today is caused mainly by humans. When people don't see the use of elements in their environment, they will abuse them. However, if they see a purpose, they will protect and maintain them. Fencing areas and setting tracts of lands off-limits to people is not the ultimate solution.
Humans have a place in the world, as much as any other species.
Eden believes that people can have an as positive effect on their environment as they can have a negative one. Man should live in symbiosis with nature, where he benefits from the land by what it gives, and where the land benefits from him because he protects and takes care of it. When he does a good job, wildlife will increase as well. The problem of overpopulation that many are concerned about today may not be such a big problem after all, as people will be needed to reverse the process of environmental degradation. Eden Foundation is running a project in sub-saharan Africa , based on this concept.