It's something I really worry about sometimes. Technology is progressing so fast. We are digging out and conserving everything we can find, potentially damaging

It's something I really worry about sometimes. Technology is progressing so fast. We are digging out and conserving everything we can find, potentially damaging it in ways that might be preventable in the future. This progress gets faster and faster; I worry that we damage most of the available history-in-the-earth because of our selfishness instead of leaving it to our descendants. Well, of course by that logic one would need to wait forever. But I wonder if others feel the same?