Enviroment VS. Goverment

When I was struggling to find the history of air and water pollution for the upcoming research paper I came by a very interesting quote. “ It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment,” quoted by Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams was a photographer, and he enjoyed taking pictures of Yosemite and the western wilderness. This quote really stuck out to me because, I do think that the government is unintentionally destroying America’s environment. I know that urbanization is unavoidable, because people need places to live and grocery stores and all that. I just feel that we don’t need as many strip malls or Walgreens as we have, and that we could save pieces of our environment by cutting back on these things. Also, isn’t that by upgrading our highways every so often that the state gets more money or something like that? I understand, that the highway is already there and the by upgrading it we are not really tearing anymore trees down. However, the machines used and tar laid down add to air pollution. The government does try to help the environment, that’s why we have the EPA and the ride share program. Although, at the same time factories are being built and construction is adding to taking apart the environment.