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your comparison would be better if humans still lived in caves or in pre-industrial buildings
human houses are not bunch of sticks found on the ground laid next to each other (anymore). They have plastic everywhere, cables, electricity, energy running through them...

finns lived arguably very ecologically when they lived in houses like this. Even this is pretty modern, go to the 1700s and the house would literally be made of wood chopped with mostly an axe (no saw mills), most likely no chimneys either (chimneys were relatively new thing here), the roof instead of shingles would be made of birch bark laid flat with trucks cut in half and rocks on top of it to keep it in place. The foundation would be on rocks, the food people would eat would be root vegetables and not need a lot of fertilization. Fridges didnt exists and not even root cellars most of the time so people buried their food under ground during winter. Farming techniques werent as advanced and people didnt preserve hay with acid or plastic so you only had dried hay for cows during winter so people didnt drink milk for most of the year and cows were kept mostly for poop

the fact is that our modern way of life is pretty fucking heavy on nature.