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Avatar offers us a cautionary tale to remind us that a selfish individualalist ethics can blind us to the importance of other people, of our dummunities, and of the living world of which we are a part, even to the point of threatening their (and our very survival)

So the happy ending of Avatar is a dream, while our world is closer to a nightmare, ecologically speaking.

For the Na'vi, however, the "sacrifice of the thing" is not a simple destruction, but is done with the intention to preserve and respect the spiritual essence of the natural world, which they regard as a singular being, the goddess Eywa. The alien "sky people," on the other hand, destroy without renewing, out of an unquenchable thirst for money, oblivious to their own deep interrelationship with nature.