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This is wildly incorrect. Human beings have been shown to be significantly impacting the environment for at least 6,000 years. If you subscribe to the Human Overkill Hypothesis for the Sixth Mass Extinction, then it goes back at least twice that. New Zealand and Madagascar's experiences definitely support this.
Anthony Hallam, the noted but deceased researcher on mass extinctions, stated in Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities, that at no time, nowhere on this world have human populations lived in harmony with nature.
Capitalism has many, many faults. However, destroying the environment predates capitalism's rise by millennia.