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Susan How's avatar

And where will the water come from to exploit this land? The arid west has none to spare, especially with the impact of climate change.

The further incursion of development into former wildlands also heightens fire risk. Who exactly will be willing to insure these enterprises? It's all folly.

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James Clendenning's avatar

Thank you compiling this. I’m sending it to folks in CA, UT, and PA, NV , and WA where I reside.

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SideshowRaheem's avatar

My state is all lead by Democrats, but I did email the South Dakota delegation to remind them of how much time and money we spend in the Black Hills area that we wouldn't do any longer if all the land becomes privately owned.

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Sherry M's avatar

Thank you! I’m forwarding to many of my friends.

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Marianne Giesler's avatar

Thanks for this

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E.S.Pancoast's avatar

Wes let us face it. Even if we can successfully bring down this modern aristocracy it will be necessary to form a new nation under a new constitution and bill of rights for all living things. So I think we need to begin formulating that reality now as it may take 50 to 100+ years to bring it about. If we are lucky maybe be a much more advanced civilization will come to our aid before the oligarch trillionaires chew up remaining landscape to power their feeble rockets to local outer space prison colonies.

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DCSox's avatar

Excellent breakdown, thank you so much for explaining this so clearly.

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