The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, 'Western civilisation' or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.

The Human: Disseminated Primatemaia (p. 7) - Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)