Modern Man has been around for about 50,000 years as homo-sapiens, and since then, as busy little beavers, we have been remaking the planet and all it contains to reflect our requirements.
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| Man's Impact - Africa |
The ultimate end product of which is likely to be a disaster for us, and
all the other creatures sharing this Earth, although once we have gone,
another evolutionary round will probably repopulate the planet
eventually.
Our
first tool was fire,
and evidence of how our fore-bearers used it to shape their environment
is just emerging, with suggestions that early human ancestors, could
have had the ability to start
fires about 300,000 years ago, but the real impact was from about 70,000
years
ago as human populations became more widespread, and really taking hold
about 50 - 40,000 years ago.
However, here we are, and the full impact of man's use of tools can now
be seen from space .... this series of stunning photographs illustrate
exactly how much we have shaped the planet. They illustrate the major
road rail, transmission line, underwater cables, overlaid on top of the
cities illuminated at night, as seen from space.
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