Is progress necessarily beneficial for society?

As for my opinion, I feel that progress is not necessarily beneficial for the society. Although progress is needed to improve our lifestyles. Without progess, human beings can still survive. Of course, without progress, our lifestyles cannot improve. However, progress may even harm the society rather than benefit it. Take the developement of man-made fertilisers as an example. Fertilisers can be obtained naturally, from animal dungs or decomposed plants but people develope artificial ones which I find quite redundant. Some of them may even degrade the quality of the soil and harm the environment. In the end, it does more harm than good.