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Josh, I read this again! A couple of additional thoughts:

First, the nearest college town to me is 20 minutes south in the same county. My husband and I only go there for the most crucial needs (which are few, now that I no longer go to school there!). But we have heard a lot of recent reports from friends and clients that this town is doing absolutely insane things with its downtown streets, sidewalks, and bicycle lanes, basically the downtown UNDRIVABLE. Yep, it's being transformed into a 15-minute hell-hole.

Second, the US government has been limiting our access to OUR PLANET for over a century. It is my current comprehension that the "national parks" system (which then spawned state, county, and local park systems) was really designed to *cordon off* our land and make us PAY to access it! These sequestered regions also include "natural preserves," "nature conservancies," and "ecological and historical preservations." What fine fuckery is that!

My husband and I have a truck and small travel trailer which we use to take a long trip each year to visit family and friends throughout the continental US. (They do not want to visit us in California, which is very sad because this state is amazingly beautiful despite the political shit-show). But I digress.

Across the miles, we see zillions of acres of forests, wide open plains, plus countless lakes, rivers, streams, and ponds: Our Creator-given natural resources. Yet the "officials" and "experts" tell us that "wood and water and land are scarce" and so prices go up and up and up! THEY do not own the resources, but they have manipulated human consciousness so severely over more than a century that we've come to believe it's okay for a corporation or a government (same thing, I suppose) to buy up — or simply TAKE — the resources and then sell them to us! It's maddening to the core of my being!

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Excellent piece, Josh! Much of this "climate crisis" BS is certainly already happening in the US and, quite specifically, here in my beautiful state of California. These psychopathic predators have GOT TO GO.

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