No, you're not, and that's something people don't realize. Our planet today is much greener because of fossil fuels, because we use stuff taken from underground, instead of taking stuff from the surface as our ancestors used to do. Our ancestors were much less numerous than we are, but they were also much less productive. The point of showing you those images from Finland and Germany is to show you how much the landscape was being degraded by “renewable practices” in the past.
I'm sorry if you want me to stick to Canada, but if you ever go to the Greek islands or Turkey, sometimes when you go to Roman ruins that are five miles inland, you're told that it used to be a port. What happened? People farmed all the steep hills around it until all the land was eroded, and the lagoon was silted and so.... Our ancestors did a lot more environmental damage using renewable methods than modern methods do today.