History Main / TerraDeforming

-->-- '''Calvin''', ''CalvinAndHobbes''

* In the last episode of ''{{Dinosaurs}}'', Earl ends up destroying all plant life on the planet to get rid of these vines that were growing everywhere as a result of the bugs that would normally eat them having gone extinct (Wesayso built a wax fruit factory on their breeding grounds, thus killing all the bugs).

''TabletopGame/{{Space 1889}}'' progress-minded Europeans see areas not used for some sort of direct benefit for humans as wasted. In 1889 wilderness conservation is barely in its infancy.

* Would it surprise you to find that this trope is a heroic virtue in ''AtlasShrugged''? From Dagny Taggert:

** In the Federation's defence, the Genesis Device wasn't ''intended'' as a weapon. They also planned to use it one lifeless worlds, limiting the moral problems.

* Earth in the future of DCOneMillion has been abandoned by humanity (who terraformed the rest of the solar system) allowing it to become a nature preserve, recovered from all environmental damage.

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->''"That's the problem with nature. Something's always stinging you or oozing mucus on you. Let's go watch TV."''
->--'''Calvin''', ''CalvinAndHobbes''

* The SlyCooper villain Jean Bison lived this trope. Having become a HumanPopsicle during the Canadian Gold Rush and later thawed out due to GlobalWarming, his mindset is that of a nineteenth century golddigger, consequently wanting to dam every river and cut down every tree for...[[FurryConfusion humanity]] to use.

People who try TerraDeforming see any area that is not housing humans, catering to humans, or creating resources for humans as wasted and views any effort to convert it into a human-usable space as a good cause. These changes often take place, or are predicted to take place, TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Because Science Marches On, these ideas have devolved into {{Zeerust}} and lead to the almost inevitable unfortunate implication that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.

->''"That's the problem with nature. Something's always stinging you or oozing mucus on you. Let's go watch TV."''

If taken to its extreme, can lead to a "CityPlanet", one of the categories under SingleBiomePlanet.

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* In episode 6 of ''KimbaTheWhiteLion'', Kimba visits the World's Fair and sees, among other things, plans to melt the frozen polar regions so the space will be habitable.

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* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', it's mentioned that plans are underway on Earth to raise a new continent from the Atlantic seabed, presumably to provide more living space for people. No mention is made of how this might affect global hydrodynamics and climate, or what marine life might be wiped out in the process.

* In Literature/TheTripods series, The Masters, alien overlords of earth, have "laid waste" to lands too far away from their three cities, located in Asia, Europe and one of the Americas. They also plan to replace Earth's atmosphere with their poisonous alien one.
* In KimStanleyRobinson's MarsTrilogy, this is a large part of the conflict between the Greens and the Reds, the latter of whom believe Mars should stay pristine and lightly-settled. Note that one of the original reasons for this was in order to determine whether or not there was any life on Mars before the colonization.
* ''The Word For World is Forest'' by {{Ursula K LeGuin}}.

* The Eighth Men in ''LastAndFirstMen'' are a technologically adept but spiritually arid HumanSubspecies. They live on a [[TerraForming terraformed]] Venus which they turned into "an engineer's paradise [...] Every inch of land served some industrial or agricultural end".

People who try TerraDeforming see any area that is not housing humans, catering to humans, or creating resources for humans as wasted and views any effort to convert it into a human-usable space as a good cause. These changes often take place, or are predicted to take place, TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Because Science Marches On, these ideas have devolved into {{Zeerust}} and lead to the almost inevitable unfortunate implication that HumansAreBastards.

* The Eighth Men in ''LastAndFirstMen'' are a technologically adept but spiritually arid HumanSubspecies. They live on a [[TerraForming terraformed]] Venus which thay turned into "an engineer's paradise [...] Every inch of land served some industrial or agricultural end".

* In ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', it's mentioned that plans are underway on Earth to raise a new continent from the Atlantic seabed, presumably to provide more living space for people. No mention is made of how this might affect global hydrodynamics and climate, or what marine life might be wiped out in the process.

* In TheTripods series, The Masters, alien overlords of earth, have "laid waste" to lands too far away from their three cities, located in Asia, Europe and one of the Americas. They also plan to replace Earth's atmosphere with their poisonous alien one.

* The Genesis Device from ''StarTrekII'' and ''StarTrekIII'' probably counts. It is an [[EarthShatteringKaboom awesome weapon]] made of [[ArtifactOfDoom doomed phlebotinum]] (and you often get a large side order of {{Nemesis}} with your terraforming) ... but also, the environments that it makes tend to collapse.

* The first two verses of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Yellow_Taxi_(song) Big Yellow Taxi]] by Joni Mitchell.

If taken to its extreme, can lead to a "[[{{Planetville}} Planet City]]", one of the categories under SingleBiomePlanet.