I’m suggesting you read Derrick Jensen on the idea of a “Great Anthropocene” because it lays out so simply and clearly some of the hidden and conditioned beliefs and behaviors much of humanity has lived by for several thousand years.... at least...... to the great suffering of Mother Earth and all of us.
Revealed within this writing is also the deeply embedded and mostly unexamined influence of how we speak--at least in the English language--and its ability to hypnotize and train us to be even more unconscious beings. You will note the writing is long and attention spans are continually dwindling it seems, but I hope you will read it to the end, and consider, possibly, another take on what it means to be truly human, and one of unimaginably many species on this exquisite home of ours.