I understand your sense of grievance, and often share it at an emotional level. But what makes you think it would ever have been different? Any creature which

I understand your sense of grievance, and often share it at an emotional level. But what makes you think it would ever have been different? Any creature which evolved the behavioural flexibility to outrun curbs on its pullulation would eventually overtax its environment. It just so happens that human spread has been so extensive that our environment is the whole globe. It is only natural, in the strictest sense, that we will damage it, probably to the point of making it inhospitable to us (at least in current numbers & consumption levels). To think that we (merely a bright hominid, evolved for small-group social interactions) might transcend our biology to manage an entire planet is, well, wishful thinking at best. It was a pleasant fantasy, with religious origins. That's all.