It's important that we look at our past to appreciate the present. Technology and industrialization have improved the lives of people all over the world significantly. Yes, it has it has on demerits, in the sense that it has solved some old problems and in turn creating new ones, like you mentioned, pollution, gobal warming, etc. This is a challenge ours or the next generation will try to solve and like most changes oir species have encounter we've discovered ways to mitigate them.