You could see our consumption as part of the natural dynamic. We came from nature. We are no less animal than any other animal and our actions are perfectly natural. "Humanity evolved a brain that allowed them to access previously untapped energy sources leading to population growth. This eventually led to an unsustainable population growth, shortly followed by a massive disruption in the global ecosystem and climate. However, the sudden dip in diversity led to an explosion of new species over the following 1.8 million years."
It's total hubris of us to split the world into natural and artificial. The stuff in the ground that we dig up came from nature, we came from nature, so everything we produce is the result of nature. Not excusing our actions or inability to change, but also not ascribing it completely to malice or saying stuff like we should be in balance with nature which is meaningless.