We as humans set the larger context for greed and the use of force to achieve that greed. We don't need those trees in the ever expanding amount of forest we cut down, but we can trade money for it, and thus the present robs from the future in the same way it robs those villagers of their life.

When a child gets run over by a car, all of society is at fault for valuing the driver, car and road over everything else. Self driving cars or better traffic design is simply an optimization and not a re-examination of the underlying contract.