I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.