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True. Though it is worth noting some small success stories like the decline of whaling: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/whale-catch

except we are harvesting all the krill, not leaving a lot for the whales.

and a lot of the krill goes to dog food.

I get where you're going, but I think you need to go back more like 200 years at least. 100 years ago our impact on whales at least was very clearly evident to anyone remotely paying attention.

Such is the (dumb pun incoming) power of exponentials and exponential growth.