For environmental impact? .. yea, i'd think so. We can rape the land and call it a success all day long but when it brings us to ruin i'd hardly call that success.
Short term profits are the ruin of humanity in my view. Doubly so when human lives and environmental damage is the cost. Lets not play stock market with those, please.
I find it odd that we expect everything to be a sustained success. Society progresses. Our needs change.