I deeply apologize my previous message, as it seems to be uncomprehensive for certain individuals. Let me put it a way it may open: Planet earth needs some kind of intelligent form of life.
From present species only few seem to understand something and humans are not among them. No intelligent creature would deliberately destroy its own environment in a name of something artificial like obligatory economic growth or need created by greed.
Over and out, carry on.
There is a lot of "environment" out there. If you've driven or flown around the Midwest or rural areas of any state, you'd see. The issue is your information suggests we live in a small world and therefore by instantly seeing what is happening across the US, it makes the world seem like a small place. There is quite a bit of environment out there in-between.
Intelligence can mean a lot of things. How about survivial of the fittest being the main ideal? There is no one single boundary as people have so many different intellectual capacities. Engineering vs accounting vs computer coding vs medical knowledge vs biological and chemical understanding. And then you have the specialities within those understandings that make one even more intellectual on that specific understanding but not the others.
I was listening to a speech the other day about extraterrestrials and space crafts. The speaker put up the conundrum that stated "even though these beings would have flying space crafts that can fly hundreds of light-years. Does it really mean all of their politicial and social problems where they came from would be solved?" And then he referred to 1,000 years ago on earth. He said, "if we showed them the technology we had today computers, internet, cars, planes ect, would that mean all of our social and political problems would be solved 😆 🤣