Human nature is what it is. Assholes yesterday. Assholes today. Assholes forever. We survived this constant tread of imbedded asshole behavior (and without causing global disaster) until humanity discovered how to use petroleum for energy and petrochemicals for plastics while also running with split atoms, atomic bombs, and radioactive waste. We went crazy with destructive energy sources thereby making our assholes selves too powerful for our own good. And now that Nature is annoyed with all of our crazy asshole behavior we will be slapped down until we either die out or figure out how to live in energy balance with our bio-diverse habitat. The lesson seems to be that a species that latches onto super energy to zoom off into crazy land with assholes steering the course will soon crash and burn. Meanwhile the Earth moves on with life that is less cocky about itself.