No, for the obvious reason that such costs remain unknown and therefore can't be accounted for by anyone. It's like trying to put a price on national parks. Wh

No, for the obvious reason that such costs remain unknown and therefore can't be accounted for by anyone. It's like trying to put a price on national parks. What I do know is that the material underpinnings of the creative forms which remain the most popular took generations—and sometimes centuries—to reach their current stages of development. Like old growth redwood groves, they can't be easily replaced if people decide that chopping them down was a mistake. In other words, we're not talking about "creative destruction" here. Just destruction. Saying "prove the unprovable or die" is not an admirable way to care for something that vast numbers value highly and which lives by careful passage from generation to generation.