Trouble is mate, humans tend to talk in decades and centuries and ocassionally when referring to history we may talk in thousands, that's like us existing for a few seconds compared to Univere billions of years. It don't mean we shouldn't look after our planet though, although it always makes me smile when people say stuff like it's the hottest it's been in a hundred years lol. I can remember the severe flooding in Germany, an area I had visited, I found the same area had been flooded exactly the same during WW2 (through a quick bit of research), so much so it hindered the allies. You could see a lot of it looked freshly built to keep the Rhine at bay where it flows into the Danube, but you could also see new structures, and I always think you will keep building near these water ways, areas that have history of being flooded, we do the same in the UK. See even here I'm only chatting the last 80 years. Also when you protect land from water, you likely just shift the problem to somewhere else.
