Hey buddy, come to rural Iowa sometime. They is so much damn wildlife the roads are littered with carcasses. Try growing a garden. We have had so much rain the last three years that there is no more groundwater deficit, older trees are able to heal themselves with rapid growth and the dead grass in unmowed pastures is rotting and allowing the new stuff to grow all year. Everything is an emerald green.
As far as that goes, if I recall when the Israelis took over there the place was a worthless desert. Now it's a quite beautiful I understand, and they have a modern lifestyle too. Seems to me that they aren't trashing things there and managing to balance the two.