Does the US kill the goose that lays the golden egg?

Does the US kill the goose that lays the golden egg? Let me explain. There are parts of our nation where nature has managed to put join together climate and scenery that makes them an attraction for people. Places like California, Arizona, Florida, the coastal areas of the south Atlantic states, parts of the Rockies, Hawaii might be included. Despite these areas having the scenery and the climate, they often are hampered by a fragile enviornment, a setting that may not be able to handle the density of the urbanized areas of the northeast and middle west. New York and Chicago can handle skylines constantly going higher and higher in a way that San Francisco and Los Angeles can not. Yet our sheer love of these special (often Sun Belt) places has put such a strain on them in the form of growth in population, increased density and sprawl, etc., that they lose the very qualities that drew people to them in the first place while the people in the former paradises are dealing with California style earthquakes, mudslides, fires, Sanatana winds or Florida style hurricanes. Do we Americans have a tendency to take the areas we preceive as pardises and love them to death through over development, thus eliminating what the draw of these areas was in the first place?>