especially on other continents. Africa, South America, and the North and South Poles currently are undergoing a notable transformation from the eradication of precious wildlife, rainforests, and habitats, to the onslaught of politics in conjunction with mega-corporations. This country did the same as it advanced from the original colonial era to the west, and socio-political/economic issues transformed the great U.S. eradicating species and transforming territory along the way.
I see your point, AZ8theist.
However, the human creature will survive and transform the original beautiful planet into something else. It will have lost the original beauty which created so many dreams and possibilities among the artists, adventurers, scientists, pioneers, scholars, et al. since the dawning of the human species. The socio-economic relationships are ever-changing, however unfortunately the stewardship of this planet was up for grabs to the most powerful.
We are probably the same age, I own the same home I lived in as a child. I remember a nun at the Catholic school who first introduced me to the notion of population explosion. From my home at night as a child, I looked out over a city jungle and would hear all the tropical sounds from the different species that were evident in the silenced midnight of the city.
Today there are no such sounds.
That tropical jungle has wilted. The only midnight sounds are gas-driven vehicles and people screaming out different moods and emotions.
Just my thoughts on the spiral down to extinction in my short lifespan (so far). The Beastiality of the human will survive the mass extinction.