To understand how human species impacted the planet, let's analyze the changes that happened on the planet in the recent past ~300 years. From nature's perspective, 300 years is just a blip. But, that's our whole modern history!

Let's think of planet Earth as one system

Human population exponentially increased in the past 300 years

To meet the needs of growing population, we converted forest land into agricultural land

Water use is growing at twice the rate of population growth

Over a third of Fish stocks are being over exploited

Mining is important for development. But, current rate of mining is not sustainable in the long term