Under the sun

Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

...The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

-- from Uncle Vanya (1897)