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Full disclosure, I was raised in the church which turned me into an atheist, but I'll meet you halfway and base my reply from the text you've quoted.
As a species, we have defiled the planet in all the ways you mention in addition to using its resources at an unsustainable rate. It's not that we don't know this; it's far worse than that. We do know it, but those most responsible don't care or think their money will protect them.
A secular explanation is described as the Great Filter
Sometimes I think we deserve it and then I remember it's only a relative handful screwing things up for everyone else.
I've heard of it, although I didn't have it in mind when I wrote the post.
The Great Filter might be our creativity and inventiveness far outpacing our ability to discern and fear long-term consequences. The whole idea of not "can we" but "should we" being somehow integrated into the pursuit of knowledge and technology.
IDK, but the increase in technology from steam engines and telegraphs to today occurred so fast that it is essentially the same people dealing with technology thousands to maybe millions of times more advanced.
The idea of Pandora's Box comes to mind as well. It's an "ancient myth," but that doesn't mean we can't learn from it.