Our culture worships one god who is male, supremely powerful and thought to be off in the distance somewhere, whereas the primitives pay homage to the god of the Earth who is female, supremely understanding and contained in all things. It all boils down to which side of the brain handles our religion. In our culture the seat of authority in our bio-control system is a military junta, with the Ego and the Reptilian portions of the brain calling the shots. The difficulty in spotting the flaw in our thinking is that we can only look at the problem with that same flawed thinking. Let's take the way we think about insects and our crops as an example.
Bugs eat crops.
To keep from losing our food supply to them we kill them with chemical poisons. On the surface this seems to solve the problem, but in a few generations the bugs have developed resistance to the poison and are back doing their thing. Meanwhile, the poison wipes out the natural predators that would normally control the insects as well as many of the insects necessary for pollination of the crops. Herbicides are used to kill weeds, but destroy the habitat for beneficial insects and food sources for some hungry ones. The local ecosystem is thrown completely out of balance.