But how does one determine the right amount of development? When is a place "destroyed"? Keep in mind that Silicon Valley was once a bunch of orchards. One c

But how does one determine the right amount of development? When is a place "destroyed"? Keep in mind that Silicon Valley was once a bunch of orchards. One could have argued that we shouldn't have built any industry here and kept it "pristine". But wait, even the orchards are man-made. Maybe things were better before agriculture... NIMBYs are just picking one point in time and declaring it "optimal".