Dismally failed, maybe.

But the exploitation economic model is not sustainable for sure.

I look at industry that was and to some extent still is at the top of it's game. The fossil fuel industry. We still rely on these fuels to feed the economy, but as markets dry up, no doubt before all the various fossil mining is exhausted, that industry tries to create an environment where their industry won't fail. In a nutshell as their markets dry up, instead of going whole hog into renewables what do they do? They double down on their product line, replace recyclables with disposables as fast as possible to sell their ground rocks and goops. They make a plastic bottle and don't have a care regarding its one time use. So we all get an ocean full of plastic. Literally. That shit has to stop, making one use and disposable products, because it's cheap(!), without caring what happens to those products is criminal to the environment. I should also point out that we are attempting to live in the environment, all 7 billion of us, along with all the other species, like fish, etc.