Social ties are secondary or tertiary factors and are left to the public and its adaptive strategies. Singapore is a good example. We meet only very rarely. Our age-old fmily structure is destroyed. Modern architecture and urbanism may have disastrous impacts on social networks developped locally over long times.
Modern cities create social unrest.
Nature is not regarded as having any rights which could be protected by the legal system. Rather, nature has the status of property and is only protected as a concomitant of the protection afforded to economic interests. Our Christian missionaries called this type of ritual phenomena 'primitive religion'. By converting the inhabitants of such territories, they devalued the local territorial system, uprooted the peoples from their own culture and took over their lands, forced formerly well adapted inhabitants of rural areas into the slums of modern cities. Evidently, there is a direct relation with problems of the Third World cities.