I wouldn't blame the trashing of the ecosphere on politically incorrect genes. That's a way of shifting responsibility for political ineptitude. The problem is in evolution of history and the emergent differentials of education and political economy globally.
Especially with specialization occupationally and individual alienation from a simple relationship to the environment in urban life mankind has a no one is in charge problem in addition to the majority not being generalist and scientifically informed. The inertia of technology in economics drives everything forward at a frenetic pace; the whole phenomenon is greater than the individual parts. Individually almost no one has the power or knowledge of how to change the whole human economic structure toward an ecological economic refoundation of sustainability. Even more challenging is the task of discovering how to implement a new political economy without harming anyone.
The pace of technical progress is itself disruptive. Reality imposes it's own demands. One must be wary of corruption that would repress philosophical development of understanding actual problems challenging the political economy.
AI took another great leap forward today as a Chinese company named Deep Seek said it can produce for 6 million dollars deep learning models that investors are spending billions on. That sent AI stocks downward 300 points. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/tech-stocks-react-chinas-deepseek-sparks-us-worries-ai-race-rcna189394
