Nature and its unchecked destroyal

I feel in recent times the man has taken the nature for granted for so-called development of the mankind. Particularly in developing countries due to nonadherence of environmental laws and corruption, we are doing so much damage to the nature that i am afraid may not be reversible. It is said that progress is a irreversible process and even if we dont do more progress, which as anybody can imagine is not even a distant possibility, even to sustain the present scenario we would have to do significant damage to the nature and thereby will have to bear the consequences of the same. I would like to know you people's thoughts