I doubt it, but the idea does, at least, invite another perspective. I noted in the margin of this essay that if this were so, then humans should also know more about stewardship after 35 million years of experience. Such destruction leads to anger, and to William Hjortsberg's powerfully-written angry essay. Death by strangulation, I think, whenever I find another spiny strand coiled like some lethal serpent beneath the junipers. We are told that stewardship can involve making and accepting hard decisions.
Stewardship is about life.
But on the way to ultimate preservation, some lives have to be taken. Patrick Hemingway describes both the planned and the unplanned destruction of both elephants and vegetation on the vast African plains. He also describes the destruction of the one, the vegetation, by the other, which ultimately and in turn led to the destruction of the destroyer. It has become fashionable to view stockmen as ecological sinners, guilty of overgrazing, killing predators, misusing water, and generally laying waste to the landscape. Ted Kooser offers a different perspective on activists.