Is There a Real Problem?

There are more acres of woods growing now than there were a hundred years ago, because it has been profitable to grow wood for lumber. So there is a real problem, and the fact that we are rich enough means that we should pay attention to that problem. But we must not go down the hay wire and create more myths that somehow or other, we've been destroying an untroubled continent. All economists seem very rhetorical on history, in things past. And i based on present economic conditions, doctor, i would like to impose on you, as a revelator and seer, where do you think we are going as aa nation, in what time period?