Science Alert reports humans have had significant impact on the physical environment for millennia, since well before any planned agriculture began. Satellite photos show this happened.
Humans have been producing "distinct, detectable and unprecedented transformations of Earth's environments" since foraging societies first emerged in the Late Pleistocene.
The “Late Pleistocene” ended over 11,000 years ago. Environmentalists need to be realistic, we humans aren’t going to suddenly have zero impact on the planet, not even close.
