Just Me Aping Wisdom

The recent finding that all of the great apes are in extreme danger of extinction should cause all of humanity to stop and really think about the paths we've chosen and where they're leading. If the world were a wheat farm, modern humans could best be likened to locusts, everywhere sucking up the wild life and replacing it with hungry young hoppers. But unlike in the case of the locust, there are no nearby wheat farms to continue our lifestyle on.
So what course of action should we take? The abandonment of advanced technology isn't viable, and technology per se isn't the problem. The root of the problem is that we've forgotten that we, like our hairy brethren, are animals and must obey the law of the jungle, which requires tenacious discipline in exchange for survival. As long as man believes that he's a superior creature entitled to chase down his every whim in a ton of polluting steel, mother nature will laugh at him with hurricanes and cry for him with acid rain.
No, we as a species need to learn a lesson in animal-hood. Maybe our big brothers the apes can teach us something about what it takes to hang on this third rock from the sun.