Not only Crypto. Remember that humans are forever discontented. Proof? We'll look around you now and try to compare what we have currently and what we don't have in the 90's. Those who build houses, buildings, and all kinds of infrastructure (note that including you and me and all of us here) doesn't care how many mountains and tress got destroyed just to have our house become elegant and will give us the comfort that we want.
So, literally humans are greedy. However, we're also trying to compensate what we think we've destroyed, but only a small portion of it could be restored. Like what a "responsible mining" does. Cut down a thousand tress, and plant back like hundreds of them lol.