What I find fascinating, once I have spent a few hundred or more hours pondering on upon what little I have read has to do with about how the planet earth came to be even before the last Ice Age some 10,000 years ago.
The planet has spent billions of years to become what it is today.
When it comes to how the planet has evolved, which I think is the wrong way of describing it, as it pertains what resides within the crust, I think what has happened is simply what has happened.
In other words, the planet evolved long before the humans that evolved who would take advantage of what was within the crust.
The planet didn't evolve in a way so that humans could drill for oil in which each of the current recognized the United Nations recognizes on an equal basis.
It was John Kennedy who once said, "life is unfair."
Indeed it is. Especially for people who will spend the rest of their lives living inside an iron lung.