I feel like I have to mention an 1951 novel: Stanisław Lem - The Astronauts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronauts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_As

I feel like I have to mention an 1951 novel: Stanisław Lem - The Astronauts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronauts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronauts ) [ SPOILERS TO FOLLOW ] which plays with the idea that Venus was fine, inhabited, with sentient life, until recently, when they blew themselves up, throwing the planet into the state it is today.