Humans are really good at inventing things. We've been improving our lot in life with technological devices and inventive advances for as long as we've been down from the trees. We invented cars because we were tired of having to walk everywhere and came up with the Internet to brighten our days with funny pictures of cats.

 

Our ever-iterative drive to make things better/faster/cheaper means that we don't have to spend our days running around trying to catch our food. But it also means that our sheer existence is tied to an intangible pile of negative environmental impacts, from the electricity that we use in our homes to the gas that we burn in our cars to the water used to grow and harvest the food that we eat.