Our civilization is a mess.
So much energy is misdirected; so much time wasted. If we imagine our civilization on Earth as an organism, then we would see humanity as an overbearing, overly complex system of resource exploitation with the majority of its energies engaged in direct or indirect warfare: class against class, religion against religion, humans against Nature. As a whole, this organism has pathologically turned on its host, the Earth. If we were to regard the Earth as a patient, then we'd have to make the diagnosis of severe illness with humanity as the pathogen. This does not bode well for us.
Why are we humans such poor custodians of our planet?
