That s what happens along the whole evolutionary line. And when communion happens, there is a new element. Humans have come down through that same line. Whatever we can do, we are Earth doing that. It doesn t, as far as we know.
Humans are the eyes, the ears, the planning of Earth.
There are lots of ways we talk about what Catholics have to say about the environment. Catholicism is a sacramental religion. Everything of creation is of God and shows us something about God. The principle of sacramentality is that there is no difference between the sacred and the secular. It s all sacred because it all comes from God.