> Most of your "only species to ..." are outright false or responses to problems humans created in the first place or have very nasty analogs.
Won't respond to the "outright" false since you say nothing further, but in response to "we created those in the first place":
That doesn't negate my message, and in fact I addressed that very point indirectly already when I said we reflect on our mistakes. No other species looks at the mess they cause and thinks "maybe we should stop doing this".
> It may bother you or make you feel uneasy or make you not want to believe it, but humans bring an immense amount of suffering into this world.
I've come from a place of misanthrope, so it absolutely does not bother me to believe it. In fact, I believed it nearly all my life. What does bother me though, is how little thought is given to the other side of the story, and the whole picture. We do bad things, but we are a net gain in terms of "goodness", whatever your definition of that word is.
I'll go further; we are the only species to do good things, because we have freedom of choice. A dolphin doesn't sit around thinking on the moral implications of killing a shark for fun, or saving a drowning human.
> For example, this is so strange. So the only way to care for the environment is to first destroy it and then try to fix it?
Of course it isn't, and many people around the world such as native Americans don't do that.
Where we _do_ do that however, we are the only ones to think about it afterwards and try to do better.
It's so easy to be pessimistic, isn't it? To write off the whole of humanity as "bad", because that's easier than saying; "shit's hard to get right, but we're trying, and I'm part of that attempt".