Natural Evolution

If we were to build a spaceship and visit another world that was destroying its planet would that not be their natural evolution? Would we intervene and try to help stop the destruction?  I often wonder if it's our natural evolution of this planet to slowly be destroyed by its inhabitants.

Human beings as a species, indigenous to our planet, have been utilizing its resources since mankind started to walk it's surface. We kill off other life to feed ourselves, destroy forests to house ourselves and mine the fossil fuels and minerals that lay deep within the earths crust to build and evolve or species further.

This of course comes with a cost, we are slowly draining the life from the planet.  The resources we use are then discarded back into the atmosphere, we have already destroyed some of our ozone layer, and are currently entering a climate change event that may be irreversible and impossible to revert to the way it was.

Is this not our natural evolution?  If we were all animals that didn't build or pollute the planet but instead reproduced to a point where there wouldn't be enough food left on the planet to sustain us all, be it another type of animal or plant would that be the natural evolution of that species?

I truly do not think we can stop progress, to do so would be denying our nature and need to explore, as well as our curiosity to uncover the unknown.  We may destroy the planet in the process or we may just destroy ourselves if we happen to stumble upon a truly horrifying technology.

It is possible to repair what has been broken, we have been doing that on a small scale since the dawn of time as well, from swords to boats, to buildings and cars, we can repair what has been broken on this planet, but first we all have to agree that there is a problem in the first place.

Scott Goerz