All animals in their nature exploit the resources they have access to in order to survive/multiply.
Humans however seem to have a trend of exploiting things to the max, even to our own detriment when we completely obliterate the land we’re using. Despite having the knowledge to thrive without destroying the planet, we still do it.
Is this human nature at this point, or something else? Interested to see what the science community thinks about how we go to this weird place in our species’ evolution
A framing here is carrying capacity.
Occasionally you have a season that increases carrying capacity (say for kangaroos) and then a season with a far lower carrying capacity (say slightly lower rainfall than usual) and a result can be the environment getting stripped (say trees).
Humans keep modifying the environment so that carrying capacity is far higher than it was a few decades before.
I think though you’re looking for some sort of philosophical answer and I’ve got nothing for that, in part because I think the question is largely based on a false premise