You make it sound like we've been destroying environment only lately and with current political systems. Humans have been wrecking havoc various environments e

You make it sound like we've been destroying environment only lately and with current political systems. Humans have been wrecking havoc various environments ever since Neolithic. Although there's no definitive proof, there are strong suggestions that they were at least contributing to the disappearance of the Mega-fauna, for instance. Examples of small human settlements in small islands are very characteristic, IMHO. Everywhere it happened, endemic birds where usually eradicated very quickly. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recently_extinct_birds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recently_extinct_birds