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Where is the outrage? Where is the common sense?
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Pofarmer
Posted 5/9/2008 09:03 (#374380 - in reply to #374378)
Subject: Re: Where is the outrage? Where is the common sense?



From numbers USA.

The rural area lost to development between 1982 and 1997 is about equal to the entire land mass of Maine and New Hampshire combined.

The rate of rural land lost to development in the 1990s was about 2.2 million acres per year. If this rate continues to the year 2050 – when today’s toddlers are middle-aged – the United States will have lost an additional 110 million acres of rural countryside. That’s about equal to the combined areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia.

Added to the loss of an area equivalent to Maine and New Hampshire, the losses by 2050 will amount to much of the Eastern Seaboard. Anyone who has flown at night from New York to Florida and seen the vast clusters of lights below sweeping away as far as the eye can see knows just how far advanced this process of mass urbanization already is – and how strained is the myth of limitless American open spaces. Half of all that agricultural loss will be the result of rapid U.S. population growth forced by mass immigration policies.

I don't quickly find anything newer, but between '97 and '07 the acreage has to be huge, especially with low density developement.
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