Of course, but that's no different than the changes brought on by urbanization or climate change due to carbon emissions.
Do you rely on the surrounding plants and animals in your area for sustenance, creating tools, daily life, etc? You do not, that's what I mean by living above/apart. Living in this way does not lead to an ecological society or a shared knowledge base of the surrounding ecology. Do your spiritual and cultural practices involve or integrate that reliance in some way? That's what I'm getting at.
Europeans did that a few hundred years ago, almost everyone did all over the world, that is not unique to anywhere.