The Worst Kind of Environmentalist

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I have a Masters of Science in Environmental Management, but I don't have the ethics that the typical environmentalist might have. In fact, my specialty of that field is resource management. I also know that 99.9999% of anything that has ever lived is extinct. That means anything goes. The world is not fixed, it's a fluid entity. Just because there is a natural cycle, doesn't mean it can't be adjusted or augmented based on the needs of an organism. Humans dissociate themselves with nature, but are still a part of it. Different organisms will change the environment around them to live. Other animals adjust, or they die. The good thing about us is we can be aware of what we hurt, so we can be cautious. That said, we shouldn't hold back when we have the power to change things. Most that read my posts know that I want to store water in different places, but that's not the only thing. I want to convert dangers into positives (like the Yellowstone super volcano), I want to allocate resources to shape the environment (turn deserts into forests and farmlands), and reclaim what was lost (tons of sediment and land building materials that were lost to the ocean returned to the land). I don't want to just let things be, because there's no point in doing so if it hurts everyone in the process. While sediment flowing into the ocean was once helpful in rebuilding the coasts naturally, it also is pulled into the ocean all the same. Coupled with ice melt, water rises even more, washing away more coastlines. While occasionally a storm delivers more sand on beaches and inland, it's pretty small amounts when compared to the larger amounts lost. What if in the future there was sediment harvesting from points of the ocean bottom and it is used to build new land? Coupled with water extraction, it would be possible to make a very different world. It's all fascinating to think about.