So everyone wants green spaces, but also wants those green spaces to be bulldozed for housing. Putting an airport in a major city is bad because it lowered property values, causes noise pollution andthe land could be better used for more housing.

Thus it would have been better to build this thing out west of 128 or 495 where green space would have been bulldozed for the airport and the surrounding property values would have dropped. Got it.

Dude, you live in a city, an expensive city. One of the great things about greater Boston is that its so darn small. So its virtually nothing to go get your green area fix outside the city.

But yes, paradise lost. Its happened all over the country. Look at central and western mass, beautiful old homes literally feet from main roads, rivers and lakes too toxic to eat the fish from, great woods for hiking and hunting bulldozed to put up a Target plaza with a 110 Grill and whatnot. Yeah, it sucks.

As for the whole anti-government and rebellious aspect of the article, I'm sorry but if Rage Against the Machine was Millenial or GenZ the lyrics would be "F$## YOU YOU BETTER DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU!!" So that whole aspect of the story isnt needed.

Finally, the environmentalism aspect, when people stop buying goods from India, South East Asia (countries we've killed our manufacturing for and essentially exported slavery) I may start to believe that people give a crap about the environment. Until then, buying goods that have to cross the Pacific on a ship that burns 12 gallons of fuel for every foot it moves is a HUGE indicator that people dont actuallu care about the environment.

Its sad, yes its a bit of paradise lost, and its not stopping.