"Energy - Use and Overuse"

All life’s species exploit energy in the environment to reproduce, survive and thrive.  In an abundance of energy, a species will grow. This happens naturally and organically.  Humans have found an abundant energy source in buried fossils that we are now exploiting to reproduce and thrive. The problem with this energy source is that the more you use it, the more it harms the planet, making it uninhabitable.  Can homo sapiens overcome our instincts to exploit all available, inexpensive energy knowing that doing so is causing mass extinction, imperiling even our own existence?