I mean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_revolution

We suckers are hackers and gamers upon Nature and everything around us, aren't we?

Okay-- I'm not saying that we should hate our species or anything like that, but I do feel that ultimately we live in the field of Nature, and the more we lose sight of that, the more we lose the plot. Eh, or something like that...