Those things aren't new, but the scale of it is new. In particular, passenger air travel has absolutely exploded the last couple of decades. According to this [1] chart, the number of passengers have doubled in 2006. It's up by a factor 13 since 1970.
Our systemic environmental problems don't mostly come from new concepts, but from population growth and globalization.
Our systemic environmental problems don't mostly come from new concepts, but from population growth and globalization.
[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR