Except it isn't a straightforward relationship between production and environmental degradation. The 'how' matters quite a bit namely in terms of efficiency. To pretend that producing a new genetic therapy is the same as grazing one million more goats is asinine.

The awkward truth is that we have always had an impact on others even back in ancient times wrongly considered isolated arcadias in tune with their environment. Mega-fauna didn't become extinct from running out of food but from humans running out of them as food, and the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon rain forests.