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The National Environmental Policy Act, signed in 1969, now requires years of studies, lawsuits, and consultations for even modest construction, turning routine projects into decade-long ordeals that favor only the largest corporations capable of absorbing the costs.
This regime did not emerge from ancient Christian order but from the postwar administrative expansion that replaced the guild-regulated economies of earlier centuries with centralized environmental review boards answerable to no electorate.
Scripture places stewardship of the land under households and lawful authority, not under an unaccountable bureaucracy that treats every acre as potential litigation and every builder as a presumptive offender.
The five reforms proposed to restore permitting sanity therefore strike at the root: they reassert that property held under God must serve productive use rather than perpetual process, and that national sovereignty requires the capacity to build within national borders.
Where the City of Man demands endless review to dissolve the particular into the global, the City of God insists that ordered hierarchy in household and commonwealth enables genuine abundance without the twin poisons of collectivist seizure or atomized speculation.
The Technocratic Automaton that operates these rules serves neither conservation nor prosperity but the concentration of power in agencies that answer only to themselves and to the interests that capture them.
Those who desire abundance must therefore dismantle the NEPA apparatus and replace it with swift, localized permitting bounded by clear statute and moral law, returning authority to the states and the people they serve.
The remnant that remembers the covenantal duty to subdue and keep the earth will refuse to leave the nation's future in the hands of those who profit from its paralysis.
