re: "...a different landscape..."
Technology, civilization, and cities look a lot different to humans who have lived generations of life very close to the bone. A lot of criticism of technology and civilization--in fact, pretty much all of it--comes from people who have been lying comfortably in civilization's hammock all their lives.
The people manning those workstations in that clean, brightly-lit factory may well remember what life on a subsistence farm used to be like.
Edward Burtynsky is obviously a very skilled artist, but he was born in Canada and has probably never known any kind of serious hardship. I haven't either, but I know enough to deeply appreciate the manufactured landscape I live in.