by Revenant » Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:09 am
I think the tying of industrial development to ecological issues is a bit misplaced (cart before horse). Humans have been guilty of negatively affecting their environment even in hunter-gatherer stages, driving needed wildlife populations to extinction. Essentially every time humans solve a problem that solution entails its own set of problems to solve. Agricultural revolution solves a problem, sets the basis for modern industrial development and so forth, but leads to its own set of ecological issues, and on and on...