"Yes, it is but we humans are destroying the nature for quite long and there are numerable examples of this activity as numerable deserts around the world."
Until humans made it to the first one and two billion of worl population, it took quite an amount of time. While from 4 to 5 and 5 to 6 and eventually the 7 billions it has been only a few decades. If I remember correnctly, the Mayans vanished because the area they lived in became dry and agriculture wasn't possible anymore. The process didn't take place over night, but the authorities seemingly decided to ignore the problem or simply didn't know what to do about it. But as the Mayans vanished, the whole of mankind hasn't stopped to exist. There were other cultures already present too. Also didn't flora and fauna of the whole world take damage, it was only in their local area, where the Mayans lived. Animals and plants in Australia didn't get any damage for what the Mayans had done in Central America. There days humans are everywhere in the world and they literally do the very same mistakes for the nature in their areas. Only what are called "indigenous peoples" which still live close to the laws of nature have their ways of life adapted to their surroundings they live in, contrary to the rest of mankind. This is a different overall picture compared to the past times where humans had a pretty limited range as to how they form their environment according to their needs. Both technically and how much they needed it because they needed space to live. And, even in those times, there sure some animal species already died out or lands were destroyed for a very large amount of time. See the Nile in Egypt - I think it also once was a much more greener land these days. But agriculture did its job to it... Central Sahara once contained a large lake, about a 900 to 1000 years ago. Why it vanishes is still a question to science; only from these days viewpoint it seems pretty absurd and unthinkable as the whole area is a desert now.
When the times of the seafaring came, the sailors and settlers brought quite some stuff in animals (often) to areas where they originally didn't exist. Sometimes this is even the base for troubles with these species until today. In return for that, they also brought a lot of stuff from the newly discovered areas in the world to their home countries that didn't orginally exist there. Lots of modern argricultural plants that are self-evident today in the food department in the Western world were included in this. For example, potatoes. But also, especially as the setlling process began, their behavior extinct some local animal species and surely plants too. I remember the Dodo bird in that department. The Galápagos tortoises were broad to the edge of near extinction through that. And during those times, the settlers from Europe even hunted other humans down - the local population; just to take the land to make it their own and spread like rabbits.
Ever since humans had the possibility to run away from their past sins to another area, or as long as they had a free place to still grow into, their strategies of shaping their environment went well. Still they try to do this stunt - expression of this are all those plans of colonizing Mars and all that stuff. But it's still far from being able to become reality, so mankind is thrown back at its own daily and past mistakes. That is the major difference compared to those past times. There is no place to run anymore, except the own mind - hiding in your dreams and your own fairy tale land. But even this fairy tale land is subject to being supplied with energy from the ouside, so it's not a real option that will last forever.
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Until humans made it to the first one and two billion of worl population, it took quite an amount of time. While from 4 to 5 and 5 to 6 and eventually the 7 billions it has been only a few decades.
If I remember correnctly, the Mayans vanished because the area they lived in became dry and agriculture wasn't possible anymore. The process didn't take place over night, but the authorities seemingly decided to ignore the problem or simply didn't know what to do about it.
But as the Mayans vanished, the whole of mankind hasn't stopped to exist. There were other cultures already present too.
Also didn't flora and fauna of the whole world take damage, it was only in their local area, where the Mayans lived.
Animals and plants in Australia didn't get any damage for what the Mayans had done in Central America.
There days humans are everywhere in the world and they literally do the very same mistakes for the nature in their areas. Only what are called "indigenous peoples" which still live close to the laws of nature have their ways of life adapted to their surroundings they live in, contrary to the rest of mankind.
This is a different overall picture compared to the past times where humans had a pretty limited range as to how they form their environment according to their needs. Both technically and how much they needed it because they needed space to live.
And, even in those times, there sure some animal species already died out or lands were destroyed for a very large amount of time.
See the Nile in Egypt - I think it also once was a much more greener land these days. But agriculture did its job to it...
Central Sahara once contained a large lake, about a 900 to 1000 years ago. Why it vanishes is still a question to science; only from these days viewpoint it seems pretty absurd and unthinkable as the whole area is a desert now.
When the times of the seafaring came, the sailors and settlers brought quite some stuff in animals (often) to areas where they originally didn't exist. Sometimes this is even the base for troubles with these species until today. In return for that, they also brought a lot of stuff from the newly discovered areas in the world to their home countries that didn't orginally exist there. Lots of modern argricultural plants that are self-evident today in the food department in the Western world were included in this. For example, potatoes.
But also, especially as the setlling process began, their behavior extinct some local animal species and surely plants too.
I remember the Dodo bird in that department. The Galápagos tortoises were broad to the edge of near extinction through that.
And during those times, the settlers from Europe even hunted other humans down - the local population; just to take the land to make it their own and spread like rabbits.
Ever since humans had the possibility to run away from their past sins to another area, or as long as they had a free place to still grow into, their strategies of shaping their environment went well.
Still they try to do this stunt - expression of this are all those plans of colonizing Mars and all that stuff.
But it's still far from being able to become reality, so mankind is thrown back at its own daily and past mistakes.
That is the major difference compared to those past times.
There is no place to run anymore, except the own mind - hiding in your dreams and your own fairy tale land.
But even this fairy tale land is subject to being supplied with energy from the ouside, so it's not a real option that will last forever.