I think there’s something to this. Also since making the OP, I’ve been thinking that human control of fire seems important. If trees have the majority of the biomass, but humans can burn the trees for energy or just to make space, then that also makes humans special (and overlaps a lot with what you say about energy controlled).
This also neatly connects human society to the evolutionary ecology since human dominance hierarchies determine who is able to control what energy (or set fire to what trees).
I think there’s something to this. Also since making the OP, I’ve been thinking that human control of fire seems important. If trees have the majority of the biomass, but humans can burn the trees for energy or just to make space, then that also makes humans special (and overlaps a lot with what you say about energy controlled).
This also neatly connects human society to the evolutionary ecology since human dominance hierarchies determine who is able to control what energy (or set fire to what trees).