Let me say first I mean no ill will about what it is I am going to say. I'm going to use you to illustrate my point now that I know you live in fox valley and understand the fox valley issue. 20+ years ago when I started fishing in the fox valley area the white bass was cleaner and biggger. They are called white bass for a reason. Now they are dark, tinted and brown. They are dirty now. Wisconsin river has cleaner fish per DNR. 20+ years ago The Fox Valley area were:
1) less population
2) less pollution
3) more clean fish
4) more clean water and air
5) less opportunities
6) less companies by market size
Around 20- years ago Wisconsin made Fox Valley an area of targeted growth versus SE Wisconsin. Why? Affordable properties, less regulation, and etc... major companies started to spring up and grow rapidly making Fox Valley area a super desirable place to live affordably. It is exactly the tensions I've been describing to you that you can say, I don't need a four year degree to live a good life and travel. You see the industrial growth is why you can haha and complain about needing clean air and clean water, have a good paying job, live in an affordable area, and travel. You take the pollution away by increasing regulation the companies goes away, you lose your job, you can't travel and now don't care about clean air and clean water because your gut nervous system (brain) is way smarter than your head brain.
Today the fox valley:
1) more companies by market size
2) more opportunities
3) more population
4) more pollution
5) less fish
6) less clean air and water
Notice the trade off!?!?! If yuh don't then I don't know how to explain this. LOL!!
Let me make my position clear. I am for clean air and clean water when the technology can support it. People needs supersedes nature. Hopefully, you understand the topic a bit better now that I use your life as an example.