Love it when it snows

The reason that air is now as " pure as snow" is someone began a sentence with ....The government should... so we got the clean air act and you can thank unfettered  capitalism for that 1950's miasma of breathable particulates. America's wide open spaces are filled with opioid addicts now with no jobs or hope yeah what we need is more people. People go where they can find work and it isn't in the Mojave desert or a wheat field in Nebraska. 

I agree with Oregonpappa that there's plenty of open space to still build out.  The question is whether we should?  There's 7.8 billion humans on the planet and do they all deserve multiple houses and highways to drive between them?  Do you need an Environmental Impact Study to figure that out?

Yes the space is there and the right question is should we? Not only is it an environmental question but an economic one, who will live there? Young people today want different amenities than my generation a big house and a nice green lawn and a $25k stereo system isn't what they are looking for so they are flocking to urban areas that meet their desires. In my city there is an urban renaissance and it's the younger generations you find congregating in these areas. 

All solutions to all problems are already available now.... The only thing that lacks is the collective conscious organized good will...Nothing else is necessary... This the apex of the actual historical mankind tragedy...

We will die not because we lack something, we will die because we will not use it.... :)

..a collective conscious organized goodwill.... Let's see that would be a quasi socialized look at the needs of the many and yes we lack the compassion to do it, after all the needs of the  .01% must be met.