Why are humans so destructive?

“Man” by Steve Cutts is a short video based on the Human Condition question: Why are humans so destructive?

The man first enters a world (500, 000 years ago) with absolutely nothing but nature around him. Although when he moves throughout the clip, he begins doing things like stomping on bugs, killing snakes and chickens to make himself clothing and food, throwing garbage into the ocean until it becomes black, and simply destroying the nature around him. He then moves onto making paper out of trees, building cities with factories, and in the end, starts climbing one of many mountains of failed man-made inventions, while laughing and not once looking back at the mess he created. Humans tend to blindly destroy the nature around them – nothing can get in the way of achieving what they want. This video shows that even when we see what is being destroyed, all the harm we are causing, we still continue to create an even bigger mess.

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