"Nobody seems to have the imagination to know the usefulness of humans to the needs of a place" - That conclusion comes as a slight surprise, given you have read at least my own stories which document the formal Systems Engineering I've been carrying out to establish the needs of the environment of Earth, with its conclusion, that we must stop using mathematically negative energy ( the energy we extract from Earth), and start using mathematically positive energy (The energy of the sun) , by demonetising the former, and monetising the latter, and when we do that, then our actions become positive to the needs of the planet :-)
In fact this looks like it is in process of coming about, as detailed in the numerical utilities data analysis in the "UK 50 Bn Black Hole" story, but it is so radically different from the old world, removing all possibility of concepts we mostly still think are necessary for a working economy, most can't see it yet, definiitely most folk still living on capital.