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>it's not clear to me that overall they did not create much more than they destroyed.

Can you elaborate on this? In terms of nature, what would you think humans have created more than destroyed?

I was precisely thinking of non-natural things they created. OP did not specify a reason why natural things should be more valuable than others. So if we consider all things humans did, regarding nature or not, it's not clear to me they destroyed more than they created.

Order? We reverse entropy so as to accomodate our consciousness and experience of a confusing universe. We extract, collect, curate, assemble for the sake of learning and understanding. That's got to count for something.

But maybe that's too abstract to count as creation.

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