Noble savage doesn't mean that you think the environment of the past was better than the present, it means that you think the people were better before being co

Noble savage doesn't mean that you think the environment of the past was better than the present, it means that you think the people were better before being corrupted by civilisation. I.e. it's about thinking that the changing environment under progress corrupts humans, which is the opposite of what the person you are replying to is saying and is exactly what the person they're replying to is saying... Noble savage = humans fundamentally corrupted by civilisational progress