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I don't think environmental impact occurred much before the industrial revolution though I did read where the Egyptians literally ruined much of their own environment with the sheer amount of wood burned for kilning the bricks/blocks to build the Pyramids. Don't know if that's true or not.
Easter Island, the Anasazi, even Europe before 1492 severely damaged their environment. The first two actually died out; the third probably would have had they not found the Americas. The fish were gone from the rivers, the forests depleted. Everything hung in the balance, IIRC.