It's not either environmental protection or more environmental recreation. Its both environmental protection and environmental recreation The key is to develop creative ways of maximizing recreational opportunities while minimizing environmental costs.
This principle, of course, extends to the planet as a whole. It's not either environmental protection or human development and prosperity it must be both environmental protection and human development and prosperity. This is a moral as well as a practical question. If the environmental movement allows its interests to be framed as antithetical human interests, then humans will vote their interests and we really will have an environmental catastrophe.
In the absence of such a balancing process the environmental movement boils down to the following phrase:
"Protect the environment, drop dead (in an environmentally responsible way)."
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