When will we get it?

I just read a really great article from Relevant magazine on how the Hebrew of Genesis is emphatically asking us to care for the earth. The words used in the Hebrew are akin to how God told his people to care for the Temple and how we ask God to care for us. There were only three comments on th article. All of them made my heart ache. That first respondent also goes on to say that the Bible is clear that people are far more valuable than the land. First off, I would like to know where that is in the Bible other than the "do not worry" verse in Luke. Second, yeah, we are more blessed and gifted, and so the conclusion is to walk all over the less important. Yeah, that's Christian.
The second comment focused on how we need to accept Jesus an everything will be okay. I was just about to say that the world would probably be a better place if we were all Christian, citing all the wars caused by religion. However, as I was typing the sentence, it occurred to me that we would probably then war over who's Jesus was right and Baptists would be killing Catholics would be killing Lutherans and high schools would have Missouri Synod gangs fighting ELCA gangs over communing with Episcopalians. So, never mind. The world would still be the same world.
The fourth was the worst, and unfortunately, I can't see it on the website anymore, but it went something like this:
The condition of the Earth has only improved over the past 40 years. Globalization is the best thing to make the Earth better.
I can only think that this person is either kidding or is living somewhere in Orinda without media access beyond what he or she chooses to look at on the internet (I like Orinda, but it has occurred to me that one could live there and think all was well with the world). The earth is getting better, really? Are the signs of the wellness of the Earth the famine, the drying lakes, the disappearing species, the rising seas, the melting Arctic, the fact that Atlanta is almost out of water, the pollution of the waters in India, China, the Rio Grande, Lake Erie... need I go on?

I once watched a "cornucopist" talk about how is it okay for us to use all of the Earth's resources because God would provide. Seriously, when you were a kid and used all of the... Playdough and left it out to dry, did mom just go and buy you some more? God is clear -- we are to take care of this planet. And take care does not mean use it for all it's worth 'cause we're just gonna get a new one. When will Christians realize this? Will we before it is too late?