Environmental destruction vs environment construction

In modern times we carelessly destroy entire valleys or regions - while at the same time some invest all their life to construct an ocean of new resources Compare how little efforts it takes to trow a beer can out of a car into a forest or field and how much efforts it takes to create a food producing piece of natural art such as these rice terraces - look how tiny little the effort to avoid trashing our nature vs extreme and thousands of years lasting efforts to construct such monuments of nature wonders.