It started small

When farming was done on this scale there was hardly a thought about burden upon nature and the environment. Human numbers, food production levels, industrial escalation, need and greed changed all that. Education and the media make people understand this and so much more. New challenges grow and transform continually. People learn and try new things faster and faster. With more and better tools, for curiosity makes them look everywhere, try everything.

Clever solutions have unintended consequences that are mostly initially invisible. Side effects left unattended cause mainstream disruption of many kinds, like a manmade, diabolical biodiversity. Every problem has a solution, or several. Every solution has a side effect, or several. The continuation of finding solutions for problems is never-ending.

That’s what the human brain is for. Most people discover: Every trick has a counter-trick. Find it or you die. People continue to need food, houses and so many other things. If they do not care for nature as the key to their resources (and lives), it’s now quite clear that their civilisation will come to grief. People have brains. They can learn from mistakes and spread the word. And do what’s needed. Or?