I used to work in my grandfather's farm in rural Mexico when I was a kid and it was nice seeing all the wildlife. There were giant metallic green beetles, natural water springs cheerily bubbled across dirt roads, wild tamarind trees offered free fruit, and tadpoles swam in whatever puddles would form after some rain. Thirty years later, the dirt roads have been paved over, the frogs are gone, the natural springs were drained, and large swaths of ugly brick walled properties have destroyed the land and scenery around it.

It's devastating to see the natural beauty we once coexisted with disappear to create a suburban hell scape.