We have not, we have always been destroyers, 48000 years ago all the megafauna that lived in Australia and Europe after hundreds thousands of years suddenly disappear, 13000 years ago all the megafauna disappeared from North America.

All these events were precipitated by the arrival of Homo Sapiens.

We have munched and crunched and killed and burned and eaten our way across this planet for millennia.

We have never been in harmony with nature because we are unnatural compared to other animals, the Industrial Revolution just accelerated the speed with which we consume it did not alter the fundamental problem which is that humans are greedy and will suck every last juicy drop of marrow from the bone before moving on.

Between 1888 and 1927 8 million koalas were killed for the fur trade to make hats…

North American Bison 1880 60 million-1889 500…just for their fur.

North American beaver fur trade, 400 million beavers when Europeans arrived in 1600s, down to 100 000 in 1900…

All of these things were happening long before Industrial Revolution, it just accelerated the pace.

Humanity has always been a bottomless mouth that endlessly feeds till there is nothing left then moves on.