With dropping numbers of prairie dogs, wolves will catch less and their numbers will in turn go down giving the prairie dogs a chance to recuperate. With humans it is otherwise. Humans cannot abolish nature's rules any more than they can suspend the law of gravity. However, as in the case of the Tower of Babel, New York City or factory trawlers, they can block its operation to the point of disaster. Nature will not save humans from their folly, as it will the wolves.
Humans have a moral obligation to limit their own predation.
They are not different in the sense of being exempt from reality. They are different in having the obligation of imposing their own reality limits. Our most basic alienation is our estrangement from our own moral responsibility . It is crucial for humans to rediscover the world of living nature around us because a sensitivity to the presence of God in nature is essential for a sensitivity to the presence of God in history. We can recognize that Jesus is the Christ, not just another guru, when we are aware of the dimension of the Holy - that The Earth is the Lord's.