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Yes humans still had a significant impact on the environment since well before the Industrial Revolution but it almost certainly not only accelerated but also qualitatively changed for the worse. It hasn't been that long since the Industrial Revolution and since then its become evident that our biosphere can't handle another few hundred years of this level of environmental damage.I might disagree with literally every point he makes. I used to agree with at least the whole rape of nature thing, but I've more recently become aware of just how terrible environmental destruction was pre-industrial revolution and especially as we go further back. For instance, evidence of catastrophic deforestation throws the civilization collapse hypotheses centered on Minoan and ancient Greek culture into a tailspin. And the macro-fauna, holy shit! For every ill allegedly caused by technology, technology offers solutions that we use today that were unavailable, and the disasters we would face without technology to aid us now, well, again holy shit. We also have next to no evidence about the greater human psychological condition, so it's extremely dishonest to beg the question there, and I suspect we were mentally unhealthier.
You're right that we can't really know much about the mental states of people who lived before us. But in some ways I think they were healthier. For instance, the lack of artificial lighting means that the average person's sleep cycle was far more in tune with the day/night cycle which is healthier. Our organic social units were also more robust and I think there's a plethora of benefits that came with that that have since been diluted or lost.
But again, there's a lot of uncertainty in what I'm talking about here. And as I said, I don't want to discount the good that has come about since the Industrial Revolution either.