Who are the real invaders?

Humans like capsulated viruses infesting the earth,

Always taking and taking, an uncontrolled feast

When the children are sick and our days numbered,

it's too late to change our destructive ways. 

    After reading that poem "plants", I took in the author's message and started to notice some things that I once deemed weak or insignificant and she was right. Plants always find a way to come back no matter how hard it is to live. Even in extreme conditions plants still find a way to survive. While they do not have a complex intelligence like humans, they can adapt and over time overcome any obstacle in their way. However, I also noticed how humans are the same as these plants or even worse. I have always knew from media and personal experience that humans are destroying the planet but never really thought about how or why it is happening. We are the "colonizers" and "invaders" of the earth the poet talked so much about. We take all the resources because we think we are better and smarter and stronger than every other thing on this planet, but what we are doing is harming the planet unlike that plants. If more plants "colonize" earth and take over human resources, that's honestly a good thing because science stuff. But humans' taking of resources harms the climate, wildlife, plants, etc. And we would keep doing this until our planet bleeds dry. That is why I compared our taking to parasites. Parasites infect the host and takes all of their resources without thinking twice about the consequence. We need to not only start noticing that our organisms on earth is also strong and could be better than humans, but also take notice of the ways that we are harming the planet that we once deemed insignificant.