Is modern life "always" better than it was in the past?

Is modern life "always" better than it was in the past?

In some ways this modern life we have developed seems like a dream come true, but to many people it is quite the opposite.  All of this modern day technology brings along factories, housing, new developments, and a lot of pollution.  There are few places you can go where there is a wide open space with not a factory in sight.  Because of this modern day economy we are destroying the world we live in.  We are peeling away the ozone layer with our toxic fumes and CFCs produced form these very factories that are helping us to shape the way we live.  With our advances in technology we are losing the original world God gave us.  With this new technology, we are also benefitting our world.  We are developing new technology such as solar power cars and solar panels that are helping us to progress with our technological advances and learning to not pollute so much.  Even though we are getting better with taking care of our world, it was so much better years ago.  I think that the pollution we are spreading in the world is the one major downfall of our advances.  If we can find a way to help the earth in a great way while making even more advances then that would be amazing.  Our world can be restored but it will take a lot of work, this is proof that life isn’t as great as it used to be.