As is typical of any industry's booster, you address only the benefits, without acknowledging costs- which are numerous and spread across the entire population. in other words, there is no honest cost-benefit examination.  The same arguments are presented by developers (tax base- the "bigger pie" myth).  Which is why public taxes & fees continue to grow even as quality of life declines. 

Furthermore, ALL economic activities generate revenues. It's silly to suggest that somehow we are dependent on what is after all, a finite resource.