All painfully accurate. The irony is that in trying to "conquer" nature and create an entirely artificial plastic world, we are not only destroying our own (and our children's and grandchildren's) biological support system, but we are proving ourselves to be no more "above" nature than any other animal.

Like all other animals, we habitually follow the path of least resistance to full bellies, safe homes to raise our babies, warmth when we're cold and coolness when we're hot, and addictive entertainments like rawhide bones for chewing, catnip-filled toys...or flashy new cars or beach resorts...or TV and the Internet. In claiming to have "transcended" nature we are proving the exact opposite.

As biologist Lynn Margulis once observed, humans are an extraordinarily successful species...but extraordinarily successful species never last long, because they inevitably overshoot their carrying capacity, in a feeding frenzy on all available resources. Then they die off.