On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:04:01 -0400, jeff miller
wrote:

wrote:
On Jul 7, 4:33 pm, jeff miller wrote:

i'm afraid there are simply "too many rats
in the cage". farm land and forests have been disappearing at alarming
rates for a long time now.

Um, according to the story, Plum Creek now owns 1.2 million acres in
Montana, with 280,000 acres already having been purchased by The Nature
Conservancy and other orgs and another 320,000 acres are secured via Fed
action...and the total number of acres sold to developers in the last 8
years? 3000. Plum Creek's plans for the next 8 years? To sell less
than that (granted, there's no guarantee they'll not sell more) But I'd
offer that there aren't really many developers with a spare 120 billion
(or even 12 billion) laying around to develop all 1.2 million acres, but
even if there were one (or Plum Creek simply attempted to pave every
inch of it), Montana would still have around 30 million acres of state
and Federal land (out of 90 million total acres in the state). IOW,
even if those land-raping *******s at Plum Creek sell another 3000 acres
over the next 8 years to greedy developers who it turn parcel it out in
200 acre tracts so dip**** yuppies can have 'net cams installed on them,
I suspect the 30 million acres of existing "public" land would probably
not become a barren wasteland because of the "developed" 3000.

IOW, look at ALL the facts rather than just the few that one side or the
other wants to promote.

HTH,
R




Agree with the sentiment, just curious if you actually have any data
for the "farm land and forests" disappearing. At least in the United
States I'd be surprised if there was a significant loss of farm land.
I vaguely remember increased North American forests being listed as
a reason for increased global warming.

Just curious if you have any data for your statement.
- Ken