Reply To: The Coming Great Disruption

I’m not saying that a good economy equals good environment, but that without a good economy there is less interest and certainly funding to take care of it. More has been done in the boom years in the US.

China is a country that actually is a good example that when a government and a society are overly focused on economic growth the environment becomes secondary because it slows the growth. We, in the U.S. have had the luxury of being a strong stable and mature economy that afforded us the ability, desire, and will to be responsible. As that situation erodes, the ability and will erodes with it.

I’ve watched as the big black cloud that hung over Boston in the summer when I was a kid has disappeared. The same I can say for the black stripe in the sky from New York that used to occupy the sky here on Cape Cod in the 80’s. I never saw a deer in the wild until I was 18 years old and in another state – now deer graze the lawn of the house that I grew up in. Birds of prey were nowhere to be found, now I see them just about every day. We, in the U.S., have been improving in big ways over the last 40 years. Our wealth allows us that.