Okay, if I stick with what you meant - but even then, it's only the last century which has seen serious depradations and they are superficial. Yes, a few species have gone the way of the dodo, but species have always conked out when displaced by superior species. Bad luck for them.
The main problem is that we haven't made enough species extinct. There are thousands which would best be gone. Mosquitoes, fleas, necrotizing bacteria, white pointer sharks, bull sharks, smallpox, leprosy, H5N1, sars, and a whole swathe of bung human dna.
I liked it better when I could wander down to the local Manukau harbour and haul out loads of schnapper, trevally, kawhai, sprats and stuff. I even caught a blue maomao once. I was disgruntled when the authorities poisoned the harbour and allowed others to do so to the extent that it was totally dead other than perhaps some anaerobic bacteria lurking in the slime.
Now the harbour is very rapidly coming back to life.
But even worse than the despoliation of the harbour is the poor use of apostrophe's these days and misuse of words like effect and affect. That is shocking environmental destruction - it's not just our surroundings, it's our very mode of communication and thinking. Only a maniac would think it's okay.
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