Please!! Jesus Christ! ...Please..

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3. Yes, capitalism is to blame and I say that as an avid capitalist.

In his great book Guns, Germs, and Steel, the noted anthropologist observed:

The book attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures (for example, by facilitating commerce and trade between different cultures) and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

But humans love the great wealth created by capitalism even though we are destroying most other life on Earth.

It is quite the dilemma. No doubt life on Earth would be better off if all us humans were still foraging for food.