A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It's a catastrophe

[quaker bill]

28. As part of the natural world

it might be important to note that roughly 90% of all the species of life that have ever existed on this planet, are now extinct. Species can become poorly adapted to a changing environment. Species can evolve down blind alleys. Species can become so well adapted that they overpopulate, strip resources bare, and suffer a complete collapse. These are all options provided by mom nature and only a few of those available.

Ecology is not stasis, it is a system of dynamic tension/equilibrium that is altered by periodic extraneous perturbations that reset the balance point. We as a species can easily create the sort of perturbation that resets the balance point away from our survival. Other species have done this without need of tools to get it done. With tools, we are far more capable.