@Symbeline We control it to the extent that we are causing global climate change (or global warming, if you prefer). Had humanity never existed, or had we used our technology and resources differently, the outcome for “nature” would be completely different than what we are experiencing now. We have dictated the state of our own planet.
But I agree that “control” is not the best word to describe these process that we’ve lived through, because our influence has not been deliberate. I have no doubt that we could eventually a) sufficiently get our shit together enough to work on deliberately affecting the climate and b) develop some technology that could radically alter our climate.
And also, to illustrate the point better, there’s a difference between the processes that brought us here, and what we can do. If we wanted to, we could make things much, much worse, very quickly. We certainly know how to do that. So, the conditions of the question are met – of course humans can control nature. It’s not hubris to say that.
We don’t deliberately control it, right now. We do strongly influence it, mostly unintentionally.