As a young child in the 70's, I grew up in an environment, where we watched movies like "Soylent Green," and read paper books about a dystopian future. We were brainwashed into believing that in the year 2020, candy-bars would cost a whole dollar. That frightened us and we could not believe it would happen. In one of those stores, "Brave New World," it was considered such extreme adventure and risk to travel outside the walls of the city, that you needed months of planning and permits and special medication to ease the burden of seeing nature. The movie was really good, but it flopped. It is on YouTube, but the quality is so extremely poor that it is not viewable. It would not make sense to most millennials, as they already are desensitized to such things. The movie, "Idiocracy," is a must watch movie, and "Freejack" is pretty good.
My point to all that, is that in my opinion, nobody is going to give a rat's tail about nature in the next 50 years or so, and those that do will be labeled Greenpeace supporters, treehuggers, nature-wackos, etc. Candy bars in some places now cost $ 5. Those who made predictions in the early 70's missed certain things. There are discount stores, where bargains can be found, but you spend time and gas going to such places, and that has to be figured into the cost of buying the product.
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