What are some examples of how humans are treating nature as a machine?

Question

Like mining, farming etc

Answer 1

building shopping centers/destroying the land

fast food

big macs treating animals like garbage

wasting plastic

Answer 2

Cloning.

Domestic livestock.

Agriculture.

Landfills.

Urban sprawl.

Answer 3

With respect, your question is zanny.  You are not serious?  Do we cease extraction of oil?  Which in turn is refined into gasoline?   Is it OK to use natural gas as a heat source?  Is this a project from your public school?