They always have, so far. It also apparently takes a village to pay the doctor. It takes a village to manage our rivers. I suppose it takes a village to floss our teeth. Oh, we'd be tempted to try it on our own, if it were just us, but we cannot and dare not.
Nothing is socialist anymore.
We owe them that. For, let's face it, collectivism may stink in most places, but it's dynamite at the ballot box. Not one in a million of us ever owned a watershed, of course. We're going to get our stuff back. We're pooched as a world power.