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Land is finite. (Score:3)

by schwern (1528)

There's an American assumption that you have the right to spread out as wide as you like because there's always going to be more. A left over bit of Manifest Destiny from the pioneer days. Well, there ain't no more land out there and we've got to start thinking compact. European countries don't sprawl, they've figured out how to manage their land well enough to survive for the last few hundred years without a frontier to expand into. At the rate we're chewing up land, we're not going to make it even unt
- Re:Land is finite. (Score:3, Funny)
  
  by ziggy (25) on 2003.08.30 13:17 (#23692) Journal
  
  Well, there ain't no more land out there and we've got to start thinking compact.
  There's always Canada...
  
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  - Re:Land is finite. (Score:2)
    
    by pudge (1)
    
    There still is a LOT of land in the U.S. that could be developed on. I am not in favor of eating up all the available land, but there is a lot of land to be eaten up. Most of it is in the middle of the country where no one wants to live, though. :-)

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