I think that these two have always been conflicting for millennia, but it was at such a small scale that it was ignorable. Since the advent of the industrial revolution though, worldwide growth, industrialisation and globalisation have increased at unprecedented rates, leading to our actions having an infinitely greater impact on the globe and the environment. For technocentric individuals, I think that they believe that because it was our technology that started the problems, our technology can certainly fix them too.
