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July 19, 2005
We will go silently into the night
We've discussed before how Europe will depopulate significantly if present demographic trends persist. That depopulation has already begun in Eastern Europe, and as a result, some of the land is returning to the wild and bringing bears and wolves with it. The article hints at a major tool the rich world could use to protect its wild spaces. It seems that much of the newly wild land were farms that have closed because they are unprofitable. If we removed the subsidies that so many countries provide to their farmers, many farms would close and the land allowed to go wild. At a minimum the price of land would decline allowing environmental and other anti-development groups to buy the land or development rights for far less.
Don't expect these movements to rail against subsidized farming any time soon. The growth of the local foods movement suggests that environmentalists are unlikely to get excited about their food coming from farther away.
Posted by OneEyedMan at July 19, 2005 12:13 PM
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