Well, the whole point of national parks is that they’re always going to be unproductive because you can’t do stuff in them.
If you mean in terms of extracting raw resources, maybe (though presumably a bunch of mining/logging etc in national parks could be pretty valuable) but either way it doesn’t matter because the vast majority of economic productivity you could get from them (e.g. by building cities) is banned.
Well, the whole point of national parks is that they’re always going to be unproductive because you can’t do stuff in them.
If you mean in terms of extracting raw resources, maybe (though presumably a bunch of mining/logging etc in national parks could be pretty valuable) but either way it doesn’t matter because the vast majority of economic productivity you could get from them (e.g. by building cities) is banned.
Yeah aren’t a load of national parks near large US conurbations and hence the opportunity cost in world terms is significant.