Take Dominion of or Subdue the Earth-Did we go too far?

You are not wrong. Everybody with open eyes can see that man not only did go too far, but that we went the wrong direction. The Bible speaks of Stewardship, this is, the responsible administration of what God has given us to take care of. What would you expect from a steward? Surely not that he destroys deliberately the goods he should multiply. The reformed church, in its erroneous interpretation of personal wealth as sign of being blessed and accepted, continues to defend the explotation of Earth' wealth by capitalism and the thoughtless lifestyle it promotes and tarnishes warning voices as "leftist". But let's not forget that God gave this stewardship to mankind before sin entered creation. When man lost God's image, he also lost this priviledge. Just by mercy are we entitled to live from what we can produce from Earth. God's stewardship also implies a more just distribution of what he permits us to have, this is a continuous topic of both the Old and the New Testament. But churches have degraded this to "charity", something to sooth believers' conscience.