I guess you want to live like a cave man!!!
I guess you would prefer living like a cave man. You want cell phones? You need rare earths. You want a roof over your head, you need timber. You want a car or even a bicycle, you need steel. You want food you need factory farms (at least if you want enough food for 7 billion people). In short, you have a choice, you can live with the problems, that modern life creates, or you can live with the Indians in the Amazon, live with virtually no environmental impact, live 35 years if you survive childhood, and live not a whole lot better than the animals that surround you.
PS. If you want to see real environmental devastation, go to the former Soviet Union and other countries behind the Iron Curtain. No "greedy bast@rds" there!!!