[SamBam]

Since we've caused more species to go extinct than any other invasive species in history, that's a remarkably ineffectual case of empathy.

In any case, I'd argue that this isn't real "empathy." We feel intellectually that we've done something wrong, and we even feel sadness about it (although possibly in a similar way that we'd feel towards abiotic ruin, like destroying all the arches in arches national park), but I don't think we truly empathize with the, say, beetles who are going extinct, as we cannot comprehend their minds in any way.

Since this whole discussion is about theory of mind, we should use empathy correctly: "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another."