Too much development

While traveling south through northern and central California, in areas where we haven’t been for many (16-30) years, we noticed that huge amounts of development had taken place. What was once beautiful open hillside or stretches of sandy beach or a serene lookout point has been obliterated by a jumble of tightly packed houses and condos.

One day, when every place of beauty has been covered over with houses to such an extent that the original reasons for moving there are long gone, and the only such places we can turn to are in crowded, heavily trampled national parks dotted with litter, we will regret reproducing like wildfire without regard for the limitations of the planet and then selling every conceivable inch of its most beautiful places to the highest bidder.