Looking at Ourselves
E = mc^2 implies that all physical universe is energy, and that energy is made of matter and radiation. Human bodies, animal bodies, plant bodies, and the planet are all made of matter. What powers the whole game is essentially all radiation from the sun. The closest next star is Proxima Centauri and it is 4 light years away - basically it takes 4 years for light from it to reach us compared to the our Sun's 8 minutes. So Sun is our battery.
Let us imagine a scenario where humans are extinct. In such a scenario, the plants, animals, and the planet will exist in such abundance that it be awfully beautiful. Currently, almost all animals visible and invisible to naked eye, all fish and all birds are suffering from a blatant lack of healthy pollution free habitats to carry out their basic functioning. Well, humans are too, but our scenario has them extinct. This scenario is worth taking note of when using phrases like "the planet is in danger" and "climate this that". Nothing is in danger, humanity is just dumb.
Now in this very beautiful world, let's put humans. Like any other creature, survival is the primary concern, along with reproduction. But because humans are so intelligent, they can figure out the very way everything is made, be it the equation of physical reality, or the periodic table, which gives humans more power than any creature has ever gotten access to. Humanity has access to the 'back-end' of life itself. Their very design creates a path to becoming god like. The problem however, is that because of the previous billions of years of survival based life, the momentum to only worry about oneself still remains. And that fear paired with so much power makes humanity more like a monkey with a bazooka.
Humans have had enough power for quite a while now to annihilate all of their "enemies". However, they've so far chosen to not do that. Why? Because they know that'd be the end of themselves too, so the official book of "survival of me" has been closed by the very progression of capability. So the only way to look now, is to see the alternatives.
We know from the animal-planet scenario that animals don't or the planet do not die off in absence of humanity, but instead they thrive. Greenery, oceans, mountains, populations of species, oxygen, oceans, all that is life, thrives by default. That means we're not supposed to edit nature or conclude that life is flawed. But instead, for the first time ever, we're supposed to look at what we can possibly do in this game.
The very technology which makes it impossible for us to nuke "the other", also makes it possible to take care of the same other. Which is like flipping the tables of survival upside down. Essentially defying billions of years of momentum. That's what we're facing now. The impossibility of it is the point. Humans, you and me, now have the chance to prove if we, as children of Earth, have it in us to stop the the unstoppable force which is our survival instinct and prove we are qualified to exist here. Each one of us holds the key to affect what is the future of all of life as we know it.