Irresponsible uses like building suburbs when we could live in cities? Like flying when could be taking trains? Like driving when we could be biking? Environmental law is the main force requiring us to do those things.
IMHO the problem is the absurd Kafka-esque administration Castle.
Sorry, what? Are you implying that streamlining the already absurdly long and frankly abused NEPA reviews so we can get them done in a more timely manner is somehow a bad thing?
Perhaps I should clarify: "disruptive" in data-intensive and sensitive decision-making processes, e.g. involving ecosystems and environmental processes for which there is limited knowledge and very often unavailable information, means in practice "careless" rather than "timely".