The curse of doing

All animals do, not just humans
but we can do more –
we can do more damage –
and we do
because all we can do is do
and we’re better at this never-ending doing
with our bilateral complementary prehensile limbs
extreme unspecialisation
resulting near-infinite adaptability
and capacity to change the environment … that rashly gave us life.

Gaia, you may have met your match.