I travelled the globe to document how humans became addicted to faking the natural world. Here's what I found

[Aristus]

2. Every human activity, right back to the invention of fire, was an attempt by human beings to harness the power of the

natural world, while trying to mitigate its harmful effects.

When a lightning strike burned down a forest, and killed the animals living there, human beings investigating the aftermath noticed that the animals they normally use for food tasted a lot better after prolonged exposure to fire than they did raw, and they were easier to digest. Anthropologists surmise that a favored hunting tactic of prehistoric humans was deliberately setting fires in strategic locations designed to herd fleeing animals into a trap, where groups of hunters would pick them off with ease.

We've globalized environmental manipulation, and it's taking its toll. but it's nothing new.