Can the destruction of the planet be distilled down to this?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I think industrialization, which requires "extraction,"

was inevitable because agriculture is inherently unreliable. If there's a drought, or too much rain or too much cold or plant diseases or locusts or whatever, the crop is lost. There had to be some way of developing a reliable means of survival even if the crops failed. People invented things at first to improve agricultural production (e.g., metals for plows), which led to more extraction of natural resources, and so it went.