alt Hacker NewsPerhaps, but was it untouched by design, or was it untouched because it wasn't economically feasible for them to exploit it?
Those two are very very different when it comes to assigning virtuous environmental brownie-points, and the latter is the default across most civilizations ever known.
Since when is "assigning virtuous environmental brownie-points" the topic of discussion? Your original claim which GP responded to is unrelated to that.