How has economic growth harmed our environment?

Economic growth does not harm the environment.  The ignorance, stupidity, greed, dictators and poverty of countries with no economy harms the environment.   By far the most money to promote green energy comes from major oil companies.  Look it up.  I defy anyone to prove that is wrong.  All the little talkers just talk.

Cutting down forests, burning stuff, polluting..

It’s capitalism and the profit motive that are responsible for damaging the environment. 

Economic growth means an increase in GDP, either through technological improvement or an increase in factors of production. So it will create negative externalities on the way. As the beginning of the development phase, people will fight first for food, and ignore environment degradation. So globalization has always come with negative externality where the marginal social cost is bigger than the marginal private cost. It will create overproduction and consumption. But economists still call it economic growth.

I'm not sure but I need take economics I guess and then some science etc and then just learn something etc and then that it . I've been thinking a lot about this etc . Think it's really relevant etc