Mate, you should take a trip to the former eastern block countries where there are industrial towns.

Times 10 the destruction of nature and decades of outright poisoning people.

It is something that is hard to imagine until you see it, I couldn't believe it when I traveled and worked in some of those countries.

Not saying that it is good in the west, but trust me, if you want to see the future of the western cities, just go to the eastern block cities, cancer and sicknesses in such high percentages that it makes you sick just thinking about the fact that this is what awaits all the "industrial" cities and towns out there.