God didn't make an entire vast universe then watch over it for billions of years just to have people toss everything away . I don't think it is a coincidence that at the very moment Earth is experiencing this awful crisis we also have space travel and artificial intelligence.
Since robots don't need to breath development of industry based off world is a real possibility. That means profits. Where profits are people will follow .
We have gone through the "Dark Ages" in the past aka the "Middle Ages".