How about with global warming? We could be certainly changing our environment, but this hardly looks like it is to suit us.
Global Warming is an unintended consequence of modernization to our global environment. I am referring to intentional changes we have been making to our more immediate environment. We produce electricity to allow us to light up the night, as well as heat and cool our homes, so that we are not as susceptible to changing weather conditions. We continually improve the way we build our homes, also protecting us from those changing weather conditions. We have developed methods of travel that allow us to quickly get from place to place, which helps in many emergency situations. Computers help us to perform tasks more quickly and more precisely. The list goes on and on. We don't need to adapt to those things, those are things we made to help us adapt, and we improve and adapt them to better suit our needs each time we iterate upon them.
As I said, we don't always do the best job of it, so consequences like Global Warming do result. When we notice that unintended consequences are resulting, we do work to correct them, eventually. I feel positive about our ability to address Global Warming, and hopefully we will be able to do that before it gets out of hand. If we don't, we may have created a situation to which we will need to adapt or go extinct. Until then, I think we have worked more to reduce evolutionary pressure upon our species, rather than increasing that pressure through modernization.
