Economy development or environment?

I just want to continue today discuss at this question....If economy development is conflict to environment, how should we do?

My opinion is, if we "start" to think it is a trade off or conflict between economy development and environment, then the most of time, environment will be sacrificed. Since the problem we have to deal today is always serious than the problem we have to face tomorrow.

The underling solution for today question, I think, is that we should place more value on environment, so that we won't "easily" trade our environment to the short-term economy benefit.
And I also believe, when we don't sacrifice our environment, we will automatically figure other ways to solve our current problems. Might take longer, cost more, or more complex, but we should be able to figure out!