Are we advancing at all as a species ?

As a species we have come very far, yet not far enough, we waste time and effort with material things and personal goals and we don't actually know for sure where we have been, there is alot of people talking about having to reduce the population of the planet to preserve earth and nurse it back to its original state.....but that will NOT work, how about leaving the trees to grow ? letting other life forms live instead of cloning and eating them, then having the nerve to pass them off as real animals, the milk you drink is not always REAL milk, the meat you eat is not always REAL meat.... why are we still on this planet ? with all of our technology surely someone somewhere can come up with an idea of how to change other planets so we can populate our universe , i mean, were similar to a virus, all we do is reproduce, nothing more , nothing less, yet people believe they have the right to put themselves at the top and demand we fellow them, but they do not think of mankind as a whole, just their own little obsessions and addictions.....do you think manipulating and populating our universe should be man-"kind"s next step ?? how would we even get started with this silly little currency game we are playing at the moment ? if we get rid of currency we can start living as one, working together, living together.......but that sounds far too scary to those who are comfortable with their gadgets and central heating........its a shame man-"kind" has become weak after all of these years......must be something in the water ;)