I have been an outdoor admirer forever. Give me nature over people anytime. When we crossed by car with our hero dog the whole of America, I was transfixed by the huge diversity and breathtaking beauty of the american natural landscapes. The national parks are truly breathtaking. And it was still cheap to camp in nature back then. The beautiful sandy beaches, the deserts of sand, salt and rocks, the death valley and the Grand canyon, the Flaming Gorges I actually saw and camped at, the black hills pine forests and mountain, the cowboys of wyoming and their cattles in vast green spaces, the badlands, the redwood forest and so many more places: this is the truth all across america. 

Canada has some pretty nature spots too and landscape. 

And after we are actually living in such beautiful places, both countries thought it a great idea to destroy everything about the landscape, the only thing that benefits truly everyone naturally and cheaply. We saw fracking, logging of old growth forests continuously. The beaches of California are disfigured by oil drills everywhere along the coast. Canada too has been gutting its landscape for a long long time.

So when I think of the Flaming gorges ever being buried under sand, or the dakota hills being logged like all the national parks to become, the old growth forest of bc being reduced to 3 percent of its original size and still being logged, and all this fracking I foresee and that is already happening, I feel sad for the longest time. North America's natural landscape all across it was a true GEM. Now, the land is exploited to obscene levels  and everyone is sick. 

I feel sad at the thought of the american wonders of nature disappearing in an eventual armagedon. People can move sometimes or then be reborn elsewhere, people come and go on  a land, but the land itself, it cannot move. Unless it is recreating itself (through climatic catastrophes brought about by climate change) and continent break and appear, islands too, rivers and floods do their work, volcanoes erupt etc.  

So yes, the land will be reborn one day. But in the meantime, please look up at the night skies and see the stars.