Fact is, pollution and resource depletion are products of a thriving economy.

Prosperity is a very wasteful process.

Cuba's economy has changed little in the last 50 years.

They still drive old cars (if they have not rusted into oblivion) like the 1957 Chevy.

The Left wants us to hunker down and stop building houses and cars the way we did during the boom times.

Yep, end coal mining completely, have every body move into tiny condos in the cities and use public transportation. Also end gun manufacture and the production of anything they don't like.

Most of us don't want to live in their boring pathetic world, thank you.