Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

For the first 194,000 years of humanity’s 200,000-year history, humans viewed the world and its living creatures as sacred, as having souls or spirits. A person who caused permanent harm to that world was condemned as insane and banished from the tribe. The members of the tribe realized that he was destroying the world of his children’s children, an unthinkable and aberrant act. The ancient peoples understood: when you kick your Mother (Earth), she kicks back. She does not roll over and submit to her own death.
Does the world consider human life more important than a tree or a fox? Does the forest “prefer” men to deer? Do the oceans thrive as a result of our presence? Is the planet healthier for our having inhabited it these past seven thousand years since the rise of the city-state?