Yes. Problems like this one: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-arctic-microplastic-pollution.html https://phys.org/news/2021-01-arctic-microplastic-pollution....

Yes. Problems like this one: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-arctic-microplastic-pollution.html https://phys.org/news/2021-01-arctic-microplastic-pollution.... are an unintended consequence of scale. I don't have good solutions, and the way our economies are set up discourage population degrowth (see the panic in Europe), and there are many bad, immoral ways to go about it, but so many of our problems are not a problem with technologies employed, but the scale at which they are employed.