Almost any multicentury period has dramatically changed human society. Also people knew about and have already experienced pollution and other effects of indus

Almost any multicentury period has dramatically changed human society. Also people knew about and have already experienced pollution and other effects of industrilization. Read about London big stink. Social aspects too, ludites, social disruption, leading to labor as a political / social force. Urbanizatiin. Communism. Labor laws. Etc. Since ancient times "birth of civilization" we have deforested, over fished/hunted/farmed. We have continously, dramatically changed our environment and ourselves. We've already genetically engineered ourselves (modern man and medical man are quite different) and numerous other species. Everybody in every time period believes their time is different. Is frantic changes. Is etc. Its only because they know more about recent events. Recent events are in memory. The more you study human history, the more you realize it has always been a dramatic.