All animals in their nature exploit the resources they have access to in order to survive/multiply.
Humans however seem to have a trend of exploiting things to the max, even to our own detriment when we completely obliterate the land we’re using. Despite having the knowledge to thrive without destroying the planet, we still do it.
Is this human nature at this point, or something else? Interested to see what the science community thinks about how we go to this weird place in our species’ evolution
We have both capabilities - just as all other animals -, but it is mostly ideology/culture and swarm information control by psychopaths and dark-triad humans that causes these major power-dynamics - destructions.
As you said, we have all the tech and knowledge to create a kick ass world for everybody, but we have no control of our global information - psychopaths does, and we can’t break out from that information bubble, so human civilization are in an “Ant-Mill”.
We won’t progress - break out of the mill - until we have reined in our top psychopaths and finally ended the system of manufactured ideology, morals/‘values’ and information control that generate and nurture these thrash people to power - and keeps ordinary peeps from organizing our selves in more normal/intelligent structures.