Reply #5: they don't need 2-20 acer 'ranchettes' where they bitch about life outside [View All]

[havocmom]

of the convenience of urban centers and call for help because deer are eating their petunias.

Yeah,there are just too many people on the planet, but American people are particularly good about using more than they actually need. That goes for land devoted to sprawling housing developments while urban cores are left to rot and fall apart. The American rush for the new is wasteful and way too costly to the whole world.

There is much to be said for maintaining what already exists and not being such rabid consumers. The world is finite and Americans are the slowest to acknowledge that fact. We are too easily manipulated by the ploys of marketing. And I do not see much evidence that our consumption has brought us much happiness or contenment as a population. It HAS made a lot of corporations very rich and powerful though.