/sci/ - Science & Math

I keep saying it's because of the thousands of years of shitty farming and land construction practices.

Tear down and revamp entire ecosystems just so we can have more food and area to live in.

It's only been in past century have we started to actually give a damn about the long term effects of our actions. Before that it was really more an issue of how long can we stretch out the usefulness of any given resource.

And even then in only the last half of this millennia did we pay attention to the finer details of that at all. So who the fuck knows how much damage we've caused because we didn't have the technology or understanding to care about it.