Take coral reefs for example, they are a massive self-interested survival mechanism that over a very long period co-opted some part of of the ocean floor near costs, largely existing as feeding grounds of countless exotic species who uniquely benefit from the arrangement. An arrangement which wouldn't normally be there without massive manipulation of the environment by millions of different fish and plant species.
Then we have humans who by some random luck of the draw are capable of mass exploitation of resources, often at the detriment to the environment but largely until recent times in very sustainable way.
Humans didn't choose the terms of the survival game which we were given for our own short existence and there's a billions other planets out there which are 'pristine' in an idealistic environmentalist perspective.
Our responsibility we give to our own environment, which is a relatively modern phenomenon is interesting to consider in this context. It will always be largely our doing but also our decision to do something about it (or not). I don't mean to suggest any of this justifies the destruction of habitats and hurting our own long-term odds by over-consuming. But I still feel like this trillion-mile-high context is glossed over in many of these environmental diatribes and the endless drumbeat to protect it which we've all grown up with in modern times.