Why do human beings modify their environment.
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They adapt and modify it to suit their changing needs to meet life's necessities. In the process, they bring knowledge and technology to bear on physical systems. Alterations to the environment have brought economic prosperity to some areas at some times and created environmental crises in others.
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Human beings have been doing so for thousands of years
Although, recently we have been able to accomplish it with fewer people, faster.
The two principle tools for modifying an environment are some of the oldest tools in existence: the shovel and the axe.
If there a forest where you don’t want one? Take an axe and start cutting down trees. It will take one person a VERY long time to erase a forest, but over a lifetime it can be done. Or, a large team of people can do it much more quickly. One person with a chainsaw can do it quicker than a person with an axe, and a team of people with chainsaws can do it even quicker than that. But one person with one axe can still get the job done.