This seems to be an apt description for vast swathes of sea floor. Trawling, dredging, whatever you want to call it is occurring on a huge scale. I know the oceans contain enormous bodies of water and seabeds. However I'm not confident current levels of destruction are sustainable. This is probably a separate argument to the release of carbon etc. Yesterday, I didn't know that this dredging caused a release equivalent to that of the aviation industry. Today I do know. All these studies are necessary, to inform future human conduct and fuel technological advances in favour of looking after our world.
This is what is claimed. I'm not denying that these are real issues. I accept that Man's activities may inflict harm and ecological upset and that we should consider how to live more in harmony with Nature rather than treating Nature as a resource to exploit. At the same time, I believe, overall, Nature will adapt to us as much as we adapt to Nature. It's a mutual feedback process. Eventually, Man will be extinct or will have slowly evolved into something else. The planet will be here for many millions of years long after the last human being has treaded the earth. Everything must die eventually, and out of death comes new life.
In my view, the answer to these problems is somewhere in the 'middle ground' - neither alarmist nor complacent, and relying on gradual changes in technology and letting people make their own choices.