Human beings have created a techno-ecosystem. A functional natural ecosystem is an open system. Before the industrial revolution, humans were hunters and gatherers. How do we get two systems to work on mutualistically, rather than parasitically. Showed U.S. and Germany, but all industrialized countries are the same.
Economic growth is different from economic development.
In North Dakota, disasters a man-made, as engineers built dikes so that people build houses on a flood plain. The solution to pollution has been dilution. The solution to pollution must be source reduction. When things get tough, it pays to cooperate. It's time for quality to deal over quantity.