The further away from Trees and nature people get the more dysfunctional they become

I've noticed the changes in people from the 1950s when I grew up. Even though in the 1950s people were much more sexist and racist then in some ways, they also knew who they were more then too.

What I mean by this is that people often have no idea who they are now or even what a human being actually is these days. You can see it in some people's eyes in how they have sort of "Ceased to be human" at least in how we defined human beings in the 1950s then.

There have always been good and helpful people in the human race and there have always been crazy people who likely could not be helped.

People's problems in some ways were the same then but also different because now there are about 3 times as many people here in the U.S. than when I grew up both from immigration (both legal and illegal) and just from people having babies that live here in the U.S.

So, as more ground that was once nature becomes (paved over or buildings put on it) there is less nature for people to commune with to stay sane in their lives. And even in California a lower percentage of people (than in the 1950s and 1960s) can actually afford decent cars and insurance to be actually able to get to nature to commune with in the first place.

When I grew up I could get a job part time easily from about the time I was 12 to 14 years of age. This is less true now unless it is babysitting or mowing your neighbors lawns or pulling weeds or something like that. But, even at ages 10 then I had a Newspaper route on my bicycle in Glendale California where I lived from age 8 to 21 then.

IF people don't have trees to give their suffering to (like all the native American tribes naturally did too) then often people get crazy and start taking drugs or becoming alcoholics if they don't experience the symbiosis of Trees or the wonderment of the ocean or lakes and trees. Nature is really important for people to stay sane and not either go crazy or begin to get into substance abuse or something like that.

Nature can keep people sane whereas most drugs just tend to make people crazier than they already are.

population in the U.S. in 1950:
152.3 million (1950)

The population now in the U.S.

328,760,986

The current population of the United States of America is 328,760,986 as of Saturday, May 11, 2019, based on the latest United Nations estimates. the United States population is equivalent to 4.27% of the total world population.

These figures are from Google Search by the way.

So, basically the population now is over twice what it was in 1950 here in the U.S. which makes a great difference in how much pristine wilderness is still available for people to visit now. But, then again this is true all over the world and this is making people in general much less sane than they used to be worldwide as a direct  result. Less nature and less wild animals with presently 1 million species going extinct right now on earth helps make people more insane than they were when I grew up.

You really cannot expect people to be sane or governments to be functional at this present rate.

So, expecting governments to be dysfunctional around the world might be the best point of view in all this ongoing.

I personally think we are going to see governments start to collapse first in 3rd world nations that are the poorest first this century and within a few centuries governments like the U.S. and in Europe likely will be the last to collapse as functional governments as populations increase and as 1 million species or more go extinct.