Many, if not all, religious texts have passages which require honoring the Earth. Why is "modern" man disregarding the knowledge of thousands of years of spiritual, historical writing defending our planet?

Why are being so dumb?

All these ancient documents talk of honoring the Earth:

The Egyptian Book of the Dead;

the Atharvaveda;

In Job, 12:7-10, God said, “...ask the animals, and they will teach you … or speak to the earth and it will teach you...;

Mimar Sinan, an important Ottoman architect, included several ecofriendly designs in his works, such as using ostrich eggs to repel insects, allowing for spreading courtyard houses, and a system for capturing smoke of soot to make ink- which both purified the air and utilized an early form of recycling (Al-Hassani);

Buddha set down a rule against cutting down trees, stating that “[i]ntentionally destroying or damaging a living plant is an offense against [confession]” (qtd. by Bhikkhu Ariyesako);

The Confucianism attitude towards nature was also one of respect and reference. Mencius said, “if hatchets and axes are permitted in the forests on the hills only in the proper seasons, then there will be more timber than they can use... This is the first step along the kingly way” (qtd. by Thorngren).

Again, if earlier civilizations saw the need to respect the Earth, why don't we? What do you think?