When were things different? Just over a hundred years ago a generation of men were sitting in mud trying to kill each other for no good reason. It went on for years and ruined the entire century.
The advent of all of these immediate ways of communicating spreads the options of the destroyers all over the world within seconds. Everyone has a say, but who listens, and what does it change? Humans have been polluting and using up the world's resources for thousands of years. Now, there are too many of us and the resources are running low. It's just a timing issue. Nothing else has changed. That's the problem.