The environment as we perceive it is our invention.
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.
If you desire to see, learn how to act.
Act always so as to increase the number of choices
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.