Human economic systems tend to reward things that are easy to measure, own, scale, and control. That works pretty well for machines, markets, software, and bureaucracy, but it doesn’t work as well for living systems, which rely on diversity, backup systems, and local adaptation.

So we end up with this pattern: we capture the useful order for ourselves, then push the mess, waste, heat, and instability onto the environment.

This is the fundamental nature of human. We can't change it without higher-order regulation. Even in AI training, we assume there is one true distribution and optimizes for it.

We created these systems. And unfortunately, most of us are the unwanted in these systems at the same time.