You are absolutely right, there are many ways to live and protect nature and it shouldn't be exploited to the brinks of collapsing various eco-systems, at the end of the day, we are nature as well, if it suffers, so do we and industrialization and consumers needs to maintain a balance. We are very fortunate here that there is so much thought into finding new ways of doing things that are environmentally friendly. Part of the cost of doing business is the necessary clean up required.