It is already too far gone - and it's not just the environment, it's people. Every creature, including people, evolves out of necessity - if there is no challenge there is no reason to evolve, no reason for a 'superior' creature to have more offspring than any other. Man faced different challenges as he moved out of Africa into colder climes, challenges that his peers in warmer more hospitable conditions did not. Our ancestors who stayed in sub-Saharan Africa never domesticated equines nor elephants because there was no need or advantage in doing so. OTOH those who moved into hostile climates had to learn to store food for themselves and their animals to survive. Thus the instinct to try to forsee the future and plan for it evolved only where that was an advantage. Now those cultures and genetic pools are becoming diluted and disappearing. Our space program is but one example - we apparently don't have what it takes any more as witness the mistakes that doom mission after mission. Another is the regrowth of mindless religions and the horrors that go with it.
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YOU may see parallels between Easter Island and the world, but too few have ever heard of Easter Island, let alone care, to make any difference. Worse yet, those few who could understand are limiting the number of kids they produce while the rest breed like roaches and the average sinks lower and lower. Environmental panaceas only delay the inevitable, and by providing more time for the roaches' populations to grow guarantee the end ... oh well. Thankfully, I won't be here to see it.
