How do we view nature today and how has it changed? What is our relationship to our direct environment?
Scientists say that the rate of extinction for species in the 20th century was up to 100 times higher than it would have been without man’s impact; as such the modern world is experiencing a “sixth great extinction” of animal species even when the lowest estimates of extinction rates are taken into account. Studies have shown that the impact of humans taking land for buildings, farming and timber has been to make species extinct at speeds unprecedented in Earth’s 4.5bn-year history.