From earliest times, people have changed their environments. How have people today changed their environment? Discuss both the good and the bad.

From earliest times, people have changed their environments. How have people
    today changed their environment? Discuss both the good and the bad.

In the earliest times people have changed their environments by controlling fire. About a quarter of a million years ago humans harvested the fire from a possible wild fire and eventually controlled it with a hearth. This is a very big change to the environment because the burning of grass and wood puts nutrients into the soil which makes even more grass grows causing animals to come and eat the grass which makes a good meal for the humans.

When the hunters and gatherers started the very slow change of settling and then farming, they cleared away patches of forest and began to grow crops. This is a very interesting change for the environment because it is both good and bad. The good thing about it is that the hunter and gatherers were surviving off the crops, and farming was a tiny beginning of what could be a huge civilization. The bad thing happens in the long run; nowadays we have the problem of too much forest being chopped down because of farming and the demand of trees.

The discoveries of science and technology have made our lives a whole lot easier, now we are able to access information almost wherever we go! On the other hand science and technology have created consumption, a need for more. Altogether we have changed the environment to fit our needs in both good and bad ways. The bad way we have been changing the earth is our need to consume. When we were so caught up in our achievements in our world we forgot to control what we have been doing. The outcome of this was polluting our precious earth. With our need to consume, the rise of damaging our earth went higher than ever before.

The good thing is because of science and technology we have figured out what we have done wrong and now we are in the process of changing it. We have put up hundreds of campaigns that tell us about our earth and how we are negatively affecting it, and how it is our job to change it. Now the good ways that we are changing the environment is cleaning up our mess.

Throughout the years of man we have been building up our achievements and when we reached that goal, we should have drawn the line, but because of the need to consume and grow we kept on going. Now we are taking action and changing and clean up our mess one speck at a time.