Here's something to think about.

Derrick Jensen in Orion Magazine: World at Gunpoint.

Derrick Jensen is certainly not someone I would uncritically agree with, but he has ways of thinking about these issues that are simply amazing.

Anyway, he gives us an example of the sort of thinking that isn't going to work.

So, then what? Well, Jensen has his own ideas about how to act, but I'm not quite ready for that. Certainly, we should keep it in the back of our minds.