So let me get this straight

[Random Boomer]

15. History shows a much different story

I think the difference between these last hundred years or so...Is that we went from being primarily survival oriented where we used what we needed, to becoming consumers of resources, including willful and wanton destruction of life and land for the sole purpose of having more, status, and pleasure.

No, that's not even remotely true. The history of humankind is filled with stories of people consuming resources for status and for pleasure, and it usually ends badly.

Hunter-gatherers were mostly survival oriented, in between wiping out the large mammal species on every continent they moved in to, but the advent of agriculture some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago (depending on the region) change all of that dramatically. So we've been engaging in resource overshoot for THOUSANDS of years, not just the last 100.

Petroleum-based industrialization has super-charged our population and globalized resource overshoot, and it's introduced a whole new layer of pollutants. But this is a difference of degree, not kind. We are doing what humans have done since the beginning of the current interglacial, we've just gotten better at it as the centuries rolled by.