Your record affluence includes almost half the world population living in posh, high tech circumstances on less than $2.50 a day, with 770M living on less than $1.90 a day, often in conditions that would be a disgrace even in the middle ages. Wow. You're right. What an amazing achievement. 

And all it took was for the industrialized countries to raise global CO2 levels higher than they've ever been in the entire time our species has existed, and 10x faster than ever happened before on the planet, spark an extinction event happening faster than any in the geological record and acidify the oceans to the lowest pH in like 300 million years.

To me that sounds like a zero sum game: huge population increase, impressive--sort of--gains in affluence . . . while disrupting the climate to the point where it's becoming unlivable, causing global biodiversity collapse and putting enough plastic pollution in the Pacific to cover an area the size of Texas.