OK ... so we can thank John Muir and the progressive Teddy Roosevelt for giving Bill Clinton the tools to lock up huge anthracite coal deposits in “protected lands” where they won’t compete with his Indonesian buddies’ mining interests ...
Yes, I reckon that’s about right. But after traveling through parts of China where industry is king and nature is viewed as an alien force to be conquered and exploited, I think some regulation and preservation is warranted. All things in moderation, you know?