Yes. The key words being "collective sense". Many different individuals and groups have found ways to be in service to their places over time (optimism can be found in the Regenerative Farming movement), but as a species, civilization has evolved to favor bullies (extraction and exploitation faster than non-bullies). In a capitalist/market system, the measure of our collective efforts is the flow of all productive value (mostly congruent with the flow of money), and we are doing as much as possible to increase that flow away from resource origins and toward private islands while betting on the moral turpitude of competing bullies. "A corporation is a pile of money to which a group of men swear moral allegiance." -Wendell Berry