It will take our united strength to overcome it, so let us anticipate and work out whatever residual differences we have. In answering, I will deal with two cognate questions. The question has been faced before. Gifford Pinchot was a leader with a magic name in the U.S.A. during the early conservation era. The development of our natural resources and the fullest use of them for the present generation is the first duty of this generation.
Urban land makes a good example.
Urban land, economically speaking, is a lot like falling water, strange as it seems. Even in wasting out through California's Golden Gate, fresh water repels salinity. The unreaped harvests of idle land, however, flow down the river and out the Golden Gate of time like lost loves, and magic moments that passed us by. The waste of NOT using flow resources is just as real as the waste of misusing exhaustible resources. Indeed, when we tote up the transportation costs of disintegrated urban settlement patterns, it is clear that failure to use good urban land is a major cause of wasting energy.