Places like here in the US do often avoid a lot of these issues because we do have a lot of space but god damn we sure try to speed run making poor decisions and wasting resources left and right. See things like fracking and giant SUVs.

Can you imagine if you took a people and government like the Netherlands and set it up with the land and resources of the US minus all the greedy as fuck billionaires trying to destroy everything and everyone chasing the almighty dollar. A man can dream…