User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Environmental Issues in RWBY/@comment-25405817-20150329211329/@comment-26018514-20150404013317

while Kyran is not entirely wrong... there are multiple things we have done far beyond natures capabilities.... making "merely augmenting a natural cycle to an extent" highly misleading... for 1 thing, we have severely clogged many natural temperature regulating currents with huge island sized areas of floating trash... we prevent natural restoration of the forest with our homes even if you believe that we deplete forests less or equally to natural causes like wildfires, earthquakes, pestilence or volcanoes.

in other words... when you know your "augmentation" is higher than 50-100%... you might as well consider it a problem, not pass it off by calling it "augmentation" because you don't think it will get bad enough... to bite your ass