There are people who impose their way of life on nature – they clear forests, divert rivers, plant crop fields, mine raw materials, etc.
And there are people who accept and for whom what they can draw from nature is enough – through hunting, gathering, etc.
Neither of these two ways of life is right or wrong, nor is there any reason to idealize or demonize.
But there are completely different ways of leading life and the associated cultures are completely different.
So to say that cultures haven’t “evolved” just because they don’t meet our own standards seems inappropriate to me.
