Land Use: Farms, Ranches, Cities, Dumps
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We mostly protect areas of "sublime" beauty like high mountains, that have no economic value. Where can we visit "Fertile Valley National Park"? Livestock grazing has largely destroyed the western landscape, yet we not only allow it, the taxpayers subsidize it through below-market grazing fees. In essence, we're still killing the buffalo. How do we curb human greed and endless expansion? |
Image 1. A new suburb on the edge of a vinyard in California's Napa Valley
Image 2. The border town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as seen from El Paso, Texas, about 1991. Exploitation of vulnerable people goes hand in hand with exploitation of the natural environment
Image 3. A crop duster. Farming in North America is the most labor-efficient
Image 4. Farming organically and by hand at the Green Gulch Zen Center,
Image 5. Herding sheep in the sagebrush country of Idaho.
Image 6. Aerial photo of a suburb in Juneau, Alaska
Image 7. A heavily grazed hillside in California's Coast Range. The destruction of virtually the entire western United States by livestock grazing can hardly be overstated.
Image 8. Cattle tralis on a grassy hillside in California
Image 9. Grazed and not-grazed areas. Behind the fence is a cattle ranch,
Image 10. Grazed and not-grazed areas, To the left of the fence there has been less grazing by livestock than to the right. From the Channel Islands, California.
Image 11. Erosion on a heavily grazed hillside in California's Coast Range
Image 12. Erosion on a heavily grazed hillside in California's Coast Range
Image 13. A christmas tree farm in western Oregon
Image 14. A christmas tree farm in western Oregon
Image 15. A ghost town, Bodie, in the high desert east of the Sierra Nevada
Image 16. A small portion of the huge fire in Oakland and Berkeley
Image 17. A scrap metal heap in San Francisco.
Image 18. A trash dump, mostly cars, in Haines, Alaska. Haines is one of the most beautiful places in North America; it surely doesn't deserve this.
Image 19. A trash dump, mostly cars, in Haines, Alaska.
Image 22. An old dump in Albany, California, across the Bay from San Francisco.
Image 201 An old dump in Albany, California, across the Bay from San Francisco |
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