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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not sure why this is a bad thing. We have a limited amount of land, so we should be increasing density where this is infrastructure, rather than eating up our arable land for single family home on acre plots an hour outside our cities. It is crazy and unprecendented in human terms to be so wasteful.[/quote] Leave it to the liberals to dictate where people should live, how much land they can own, and how big their home can be. Which party is the "authoritarian" party? [/quote] Presumably you have no problems with turning arable farmland into housing developments and becoming more dependent on imported foods?[/quote] That is not a near term problem. A huge share of the food we import is fruit/veg to complement and expand our growing cycles, higher end optional products (eg fancy cheeses, meats), and booze. We export 1/3 of our corn and half of our soy. That’s a lot of our farmland that has room to spare still re: meeting domestic needs. Once developers actually exhaust the current redevelopment opportunities I’ll be more sympathetic to the argument we need to abandon zoning to save our open land. I used to live in Glenmont though and that area within close metro proximity is still way underutilized for example. Gov’s need to use eminent domain in high density and existing metro areas if needed to drive the right changes - not look to change every neighborhood into somewhere you can stick a high rise. [/quote] Endless acres of big-ag monoculture like corn and soy are what are contributing to pollinator collapse. Bees and other pollinators need sources of sustinence to keep them going throughout the year but monoculture doesn't work that way. We need the monoculture broken up with different crops with different cycles between and reachable by pollinator colonies. [/quote] Modern farms are mostly not economically viable without very large parcels of land (100’s -1,000s of acres). Farmers need to mass produce large volumes of a crop to average out the cost of highly specialized equipment used for specific crop. There is no realistic way that we can move away from “monocultures” unless we want to pay substantially more for food. This is largely irrelevant to the discussion about YIMBYs.[/quote] How ya gonna pollinate those thousands of acres when the pollinators have died off?[/quote] They are dying off because of the pollution and pesticides. The GOP eliminates those "pesky" regulations which are at the root of the destruction. And yet, rural communities continue to vote for the GOP. Ponderous.[/quote] Cancer rates have increased while the regulatory burden has increased. The data doesn't say what you want it to. [/quote]
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