Enjoying life to the fullest

We as humans throughout history have always had a way of messing whatever we are around up. As said in the movie the matrix we are very much like a disease, spreading, consuming every natural resource and expanding again. So now I ask, what went wrong? Everything else in nature has a balance. What makes us humans the ones who survive, dominate and destroy? Perhaps looking back throughout history we will find some answers ... or perhaps we'll just find some random topic of mass destruction to beat the hell out of, your choice. I herby open the comments page to any random, destructable topic you can come up with. Let's start with the invention of the bomb...