Steveno: no, we are only the most dominant because we made ourselves that way because we used the intelligence that god so kindly gave us. if we were not so inteligent, then i think we would not have all the gadgetry we do and would be, for our size, one of the most vunerable creatures on Earth. it is only our numbers the fact we have cars and guns etc that we rule the Earth. by rule, i mean that we are unopposed by anything.
Yes, but we have used that intelligence to do much damage to each other and to this planet and other species that inhabit it.
And yes, I'm proud to be classified as a "tree hugger".
"If we all don't become tree huggers, there will come a day when there are no more trees to not hug. And when there are no more trees to not hug, there will be no more people to not hug them."
(Original quote...in a conversation with my father when he was denigrating "tree huggers" and I pointed out he was doing so to his tree-hugging daughter.)