If thats the case, its probably true for all other advance living species in the universe. None can reach a certain level without self destructing. Doomsday in religious text could be what this is all about.
This problem is clearly shown right inside this chart. Where the population curve began shooting up almost vertically, it where things began to go wrong.
All the thousands of years before that there were no problems. Never had environmental damages issues in the centuries before. Never heard of Endangered Spices into Extinction.
If man did not made this EXTREMELY GREEDY STUPID MODERN CIVILIZATION MISTAKE, we would had been same as before. ETs Alien won't be as Greedy stupid as us.
The mistake are called:
World Peace
Equality
Humanity
Freedom
Democracy
Human Rights
Industrialization
Globalization...
Mistakes that our ancestors did not made, therefore they were in good BALANCE with global resources. The eliminate extra population by wars, carnage, brutality, slavery, cannibalism. Etc.
Without confusion caused by wrongfully defined moralities, by using the 2 confusing words: right + wrong, I just put it as:
There are 2 opposite values or cultures, with drastically reversed results. One will lead to Balanced Long Term Existence of Man Kind as well as many other forms of lives on this planet earth - as very well proven for many many centuries. The other one is also proven within just a about a single century or so, to have caused mass destruction to planet Earth's environmental qualities, Extinction of many endangered Spices, poor Heath and Ailments never seen before in history, conclusive exhaustion of Vital Resources, and surely will lead us into our very own SELF-DESTRUCTION and Total EXTINCTION. And having to consider FLEEING PLANET EARTH'S DESTRUCTION.
Which one culture / value is more RIGHT or WRONG does not matter, because it is only a matter of definition. But Total Extinction is not a popular choice I suppose.
Science and Technology reversed quite a few definitions wrongly, for example of direction electrical current flow, and wrongly defined + - signs of polarity definition, although we confirmed that electrons are actually NEGATIVE CHARGE, FLOWING from the MINUS POLE Towards the PLUS POLE, instead of our ignorant wrongful definition, we refused to make corrections, and lived with that for centuries since Thomas Edison era. But this will not cause our Extinction, so never mind.
Not however for the moralities of modern civilization which lead us into total EXTINCTION, and facing to flee this RUINED planet. KNN! WAKE UP!