Yes and no .. for example we've barely scratched the depths of new species on the ocean floor, but we likely won't have to worry about that in a year or so when Gerard Barron starts strip mining nodules that form the base of the food chain of life we've only recently discovered.
Cheers for the suggestion, I personally read the book, attended the concert [1], and learnt more about capitalist resource extraction attitudes from meeting the Vogons [2] when working on mapping [3] than I did from Pynchon's filtered Rathenau [4].
https://www.unisq.edu.au/study/why-unisq/unisq-stories/testi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metals_Company