Another example is land use. We have created beautiful landscape, lucheous, tranquile landscape that please our soles and inspire our poems. Landscape that are rich ecosystems and refugees and island for many species.

And we like to build our houses in managed and beautifully designed landscapes, although not all of us are able to have houses as big and beautiful as the one in the picture. But most of us like to have a small piece of land, even if it is just an urban frontyard, that we can put our very personal stamp on. We all feel like we need to impact our immediate environment.

But we also have impacted the environment negatively, changed it into devastated, ugly, industrial, monotoneous spaces deserted of rich ecosystems and void of thriving live. Most importantly, humanity has modified, permanently changed, or managed more than 50% of the ice-free surface of the Earth's surface. We have grown to a major power able of transforming the Earth's surface substantially. No other species has ever been in this position.