How could billions of impoverished humans not be radically altering the environment and biosphere? Are we too myopic in our life time-frame? Study of the geologic time-frame shows that we are making the largest impact on the Earth that has ever been made by an organism. Yet such is not the blame of our nature or our numbers. In truth the cause is but a few technologies/ideas that have advanced human destruction far beyond what it would otherwise be.

  The top two are fascism and socialism:

  Fascism - Benito Mussolini once quipped, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power". The means for corrupt persons to gain control of the corporate world is banking. It drives near unrestrained credit growth and extracts vast amounts of wealth, redistributing such to those who already have large amounts of wealth. Banking is socialism for the ultra-wealthy and has driven economic and political corruption on a global level. It has been an obfuscating means of theft, destroying the potential of population-wide individual wealth. An all-around wealthy society would effect the slowing of human population growth and prevent the need to destroy lands and resources that overpopulation and poverty creates. Banking is a primary tool of fascists. It can go unnoticed by many for a very long time, working behind the scenes until a point is reached when it has consolidated all the wealth it can through conventional means and then must move to fully takeover government in order to continue the theft. At this stage we might see it for what it is by witness of a political call for a more expansive role of national, and possibly even international, socialism.

  Socialism slows and eventually halts innovation and hard work. No one is happy having their wealth taken under threat of force and redistributed based on politically motivated ethics. The wealth of a society is created by the creativity and labor of its members, as declines the amount of labor performed so declines the amount of wealth. Ownership of land instills a sense of stewardship - a sense that you are borrowing the land from your children. Thus land is treated as an investment for the future. When land is taken and managed in the socialist state and its denizens impoverished, then there is created a competitive need to take and even destroy resources before ones neighbors do the same. This is the race to the bottom which destroys and wastes until there is no energy remaining to destroy and waste - a time when the land becomes barren and infertile and incapable of supporting human life.

  What is the alternative to such horror?

  Libertarianism - A government that confines its duty to the protection of individual rights and allows competing forms of money [thus breaking the banking monopoly] will produce, not only the wealthiest and happiest overall society, it will also cease the radical destruction of the natural world and increase its beauty and diversity.

  Fascism and Socialism are anathema to Human liberty and to the environment in which we live. Until we cease the use of these technologies/ideas, we shall continue in a race to the bottom.