how do you feel about what is considered..progress? ..?

If we all know it is so wrong to destroy native wildlife why do we stand there and watch it take place? btw. i'm one of those that just stand there and watch... :(

I'm tired of stuff being cleared out to "make room" when there's already land that's ready to be built on, or buildings that could be recycled, y'know, refitted for other purposes, renovated, that sorta thing.

Like, I just bought a new house (well, new to me, it's actually 64 years old) and there are these little lizards and snakes and toads living there, stuff I'd never seen before while living across town. There are a lot of woods around and it's never been totally developed in my new neighborhood, and it's amazing how many little animals and bugs and stuff there are when you live with some nature around you.

I'm not gonna do like that guy who burnt down people's houses being built in the nature preserve in the US Southwest, eco-terrorism, that sorta thing...but it makes me sad to see natural habitat being flattened for building. It's not progress to kill off nature for no good reason, just because you want to slap up a building.

Put buildings where nature's already been destroyed. Simple enough...but it's hard to convince people to do it.

I don't think that big box stores or malls absolutely need to take the forests and other animal habitats to build their stores on. There are plenty of vacant stores, and vacant lots, on which to build or rebuild.

survival of the fittest. We're animals also. Those animals displaced will adapt somewhere else.

I'm ambivalent about the benefits of progress.