A tumor is a part of an organism that has mutated to play a much shorter game than the organism itself. Humanity seems to be a tumor on the biosphere. The industrial revolution is that happy moment when the host was switched to mostly delivering nutrients to the tumor.
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As far as we know, evolution does not have intentions - it proceeds by conjecture and criticism, essentially. And I think it could be argued that we're always 'causing' our extinction - namely, every solution we create carries some risk, and begets new problems.
From my understanding evolution optimises for increasingly ordered complexity Hrm maybe we're just hitting a lot more of the barriers to growth than other species got a chance to reach
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It's unclear whether evolution optimizes for order, or complexity, or anything else. Don't forget, complexity could only go in one direction following abiogenesis!
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On that note, have you read Scale by Geoffrey West? I bet you'd like it (might've spelled his name incorrectly)
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