If by US as a society, you mean people between the current lines drawn in the sand, I can see this identity going away in the future (for the better). It think it will be gone in a century.
Lets not hold onto any sacred cows, or this identity might end after a great deal of bloodshed and unnecessary mismanagement of natural resources.
People in the first world have a large responsibility to stand up for the environment. To stand up to the "practical" people who would rather wait for an apocalypse, than to clean up our act, after acknowledging the rotten core of our political and economic system.
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