Prosperity comes at 'devastating' cost to nature

When prosperity means “throwing away tons of electronic crap people give each other for Christmas because they have been exposed to ads and social pressure to buy crap” or “flying planes in circle in the sky because people are nostalgic of traveling during lock-down”, then you can't have “prosperity” without harming nature.

So will most other animals. This isn't something unique to humans.

> I notice both commenters referenced cats - a domesticated and invasive species.

Foxes and coyotes, which I mentioned, aren't. Most predators do this (gratuitous killing) to some degree or another. Even some none-predators engage in "pointless" violent aggression towards other species.

> It is apparent to me that no other species (ever) has been implicated in a mass extinction event.

Only because most other species (since cyanobacteria) are drawing from a more limited pool of resources. Other species certainly do radically transform their local ecosystems which leads to disruption until other species move in to fill the new niches. What makes humans different is that our "resources" encompass a much broader area and array of material than other animals.

There is no steady state in the absence of human intervention. I am not claiming that humans are 'better.' They aren't. They're just another animal, just one unusually adaptable thanks to big brains, language, and thumbs. I'm not assigning any more value to that. In the long run, it might be a 'bad' thing, in that, as the comments here show, we tend to be much too proud of those big brains.

'She will make a good American housewife...'

There are hundreds of millions of people in the USA and UK who are overweight, and another hundred million who aren't. From those kind of numbers you ought to be able to produce at least a couple of million people who dieted, exercised, lost weight, and kept it off long term. Where are they? There are decades of things like Weight Watchers and Slim Fast, there ought to be well-honed methods that work and studies of successes, Weight Watchers crows about a 5% weight loss. That's 300lbs down to 285lbs.

"Fat is officially incurable" - https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/fat-officially-incurable... - basically anyone who loses weight, regains it. The very few who don't turn it into an obsession, or have surgery.

> "yet the truth is, the population is too lazy/fat for that"

"5 Baffling Lies Society Told You About Fat People" - https://www.cracked.com/article_22964_5-baffling-lies-societ... - "Think the problem is that people these days have simply gotten too lazy? Well, studies show that in parts of the country where physical activity increased, so did obesity. (Note: People who exercise tend to eat more.) Oh, and your "lazy" Western lifestyle burns the same amount of energy as that of your hunter-gatherer ancestors.".

Is that the truth or did you just make it up because it sounds simple and makes you feel morally superior?

> "Can anyone detail any global significant change since we were aware of the "climate emergency"?"

The UK has gone from almost no wind electricity generation to 30% and peaking over 50%.

> "for no benefit to nature whatsoever."

Define? This is suspiciously similar to the "HuMaNs ArE A CanCer" nihilist nonsense that somehow vaguely classifies humans as "outside nature" and therefore that things which benefit humans are "bad" and things which hurt humans are "good" for nature. Humans are nature.

> "We're still having far, far too many children who just consume for their entire lives and input/provide nothing of value back,"

What value are buffalo providing back? What value are plants providing back? What value are whales providing back?

> "And that will continue until the day humans are essentially extinct,"

That should please you, Mars seems to be your dreamworld - it's cold and there are no humans and no landfill, and that's apparently everything you care about.