Is this judgement correct?

Is this judgement correct? We know, in fact, that water-vapour rises up with a wind that comes from the sea coast and brings water to dry and hot areas remote from the sea, thus bringing new life to thirsty trees and moderating the intense heat, so as to enable millions of people to live in those areas. The mistake in this way of thinking is that those who were on the coast considered only their own situation and ignored the arrangement of existence as a whole.

What is said above is followed by the conclusion that one must not assume from a cursory glance that things are useless. But that one must try to understand the effects of creation as a part of one complete system, not only in the present but also connected with the…