So I guess there needs to be a distinction between symptoms and causes.
The symptoms: Habitat destruction, pollution, overharvesting of natual resources, invasive species, climate change, etc..
The causes: .. burgeoning human population of which a significant and increasing percentage live, travel, ingest, and use products relying on vast quantities of non-renewable and polluting resources, while concurrently denying the impacts and shortsightedness of such societal directions.
By the way, watching the Australian Government shift back on several climate change policies supposedly due to the need to cover the costs of flooding (not to mention what’s on the horizon) raised again that worrysome scenario with respect to climate change: governments anouncing that they can’t afford mitigation, because they’re too busy paying for the costs of climate change….
…and round and round it goes…