Reply #9: We have cavier here too! [View All]

[havocmom]

I live by the Yellowstone River and a lake fed by the Missouri. Guess what kind of fish we have besides pike, trout, and paddle fish big enough to swim to the shore line and grab a thirsty deer for dinner? There are sturgeon here. And the eggs get harvested, canned, and often shipped to other nations!

If we would all settle for a little less of what we want, there would be plenty of what we need available.

When farmers have to sell off land that grew food to land developers, you lose more than food production. A family on a farm of several thousand acres sends just a few kids to schools. They flush toilets only so many times a day. They drive only so many miles a year on public roads.

Take that land and subdivide it to one to 50 families per acre and the public needs to pay for a whole lot more infrastructure. And a whole lot more oil gets used getting people from the new 'burbs to jobs in the urban centers. It is a lose/lose proposition for everyone but the developers and the pols they buy.