Think of it like the industrial revolution. No environmentalist, shouting for analysis, regulation, or transparency would have survived that era, they'd've been steamrolled. Now we're left with many long-term problems, even generations downstream of that focus on profit above all else.
Same thing happening now.
And you don't have to be a doomer screeching about skynet. The web is already piling up with pollutive, procedurally-generated smog.
I'm not catastrophizing; its just that history is the best predictor of the future.