Ishmael the adventures of the mind and spirit by Daniel quinn

He says that people take more than they want to give. People use and abuse resources without giving back to a planet that is struggling to sustain them.

“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.”