I didn't, honestly.
But that isn't how people live. They have great big houses, and condo buildings and apartment buildings, with huge parking lots and massive super highways leading to giant international airports full of jumbo jets, and eat food shipped from across the ocean on ships bigger than football fields protected by vast nuclear armed Navy's. And they have so much information available on a device that fits in their front pocket, that they know everything there is to know, instantly, whenever they want.
And the people of the world who DON'T have all that, see it on TV and the internet, and they want it. Because they deserve it, they should have that lifestyle too, and they will level mountains and drain lakes in one place only to create another somewhere else, and if they pollute and destroy one area getting there, that's fine because they will be mobile and it's a big world and they can just move, once they are rich enough. A few blocks away from the dump, a nice tall wall, a faux brick driveway and a red door, and man, that's livin! Sure, they could drink a Busch Light, but nah, they have moved up in the world, it's craft brew time, a hoppy IPA, something with a stupid name and a picture of a cat shooting a Desert Eagle while riding a unicorn that fires lazers from its eyes.
I mean, maybe everyone COULD live in New Zealand, but then it would be a wasteland in no time. Because people are smart, and ambitious, and they breed fast. And people are also short sighted, and greedy, and callous.
It sucks, but barring a worldwide epidemic, or nuclear war, I can see the entire planet being pretty much a parking lot. Just paved. But then, by that time, that will be the new normal, and when it changes, over the years, the generation that grew up in that paved world will look back on it with nostalgia.
Huh.