We are a two year old who is trying to raise itself.

I agree and I'll add that that it's a variation of a complaint I have about our modern attitudes. We put far too much emphasis on 'winning'.
In our capitalist world, it's not enough just to win, the other side must lose.

Throughout most of history we have struggled to survive. If we failed we could literally die out and become extinct at any time. In that context a hyper-competitive short-term winning-is-the-only-thing attitude is at least defensible if not reasonable.

But now we are the dominant species on the planet.
If we don't very soon adopt more mature long-term sustainable approaches to managing our situation we will finally lose our survival contest and disappear shortly (rather than later as is of course inevitable anyway).

I can't recall who said it but it has been claimed that we as a species who are at this point in time trying to describe the wonders of the universe using a communications system designed originally to yell at the monkey in the next tree to stop throwing his shit at us.

I think we understand the earth and our place in it fairly well bu our greed and selfishness will be our undoing. We are like lemmings running towards destruction but our cliff edge is overpopulation, habitat destruction, species annihilation and denial of the effects of climate change.

Very true.