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Learning from Las Vegas: The Costs of Growth

https://steadystate.org/learning-from-las-vegas-the-costs-of-growth/
Created
Sat, 02/12/2023 - 01:21
by Daniel Wortel-London

Since 1998, the City of Las Vegas and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have been gambling with nature. By auctioning off public land from the BLM for development and using the proceeds to preserve natural areas, policymakers and federal officials have bet that development and conservation can go hand-in-hand.

But it hasn’t worked out that way.

As the Las Vegas region has grown from 1.3 to 2.7 million people since 1998,

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Drought Profiteers: Wall Street Billionaires Are Snatching Up America’s Water

https://www.mintpressnews.com/wall-street-billionaires-snatching-americas-water…
Created
Fri, 07/04/2023 - 22:31

Drought profiteers - financial industry executives buying up public freshwater resources in a time of increasing drought - are pushing the US water supply to the brink of collapse, reports Lee Camp.

The post Drought Profiteers: Wall Street Billionaires Are Snatching Up America’s Water appeared first on MintPress News.

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