Creation does not wait with eager longing for the extinction of man

"the hope of creation does not extend, for example, to the capacity of shaking off the human yoke one day.  It waits for man transfigured, man who has become the child of God.  This man gives back to creation its freedom, its dignity, its beauty.  Through him creation itself becomes divine. . . .  every creature is oriented toward the expectation of this event.  It is an infinite responsibility that is thus entrusted to humans—to be the accomplishment of every aspiration of earth and heaven."

     Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, "On hope," trans. Esther Tillman, Communio:  international Catholic review 12, no. 1 (Summer 1985) =35, no. 2 (Summer 2008):  313 (301-315), citing H. Schlier.  According to Schlier/Ratzinger, "the one who subjected [creation] to [vanity] (Rom 8:20). . . . is Adam."  But if was the sin of Adam that thus subjected it, then how, precisely, was this done "in hope"?  For "the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope".  (On the other hand, can God be said to "hope"?)