Literally was just writing a paragraph about how this viewpoint emerged with unique intensity in the west https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1358822497886601216 …
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Ted Kaczynski had some thoughts on this
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Yes but also Edward Abbey. The paleo-conservatives were very interested in him in the 1980s.
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The way it’s justified in the American west is “running out of water”
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Also the idea that the habitable zone is actually tiny, between the pacific and the coastal range
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Dense urban development preserves empty space Most people live in suburbs, not cities or actual open space. And suburbs are full. Of noise. Of traffic. Suburbs are also heavily racially/socially/economically segregated. Is it empty space they fear losing?
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I think it's related to the outdoorsy smugness. The natural beauty is real. The choice between that beauty and development/growth is false, but easy to accept.
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The natural beauty has no humans in it - except me, I have to be in it to observe it or it's not actually beautiful.
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I can't tell if you're being facetious? Some combination of self-selection (is too crowded, go west young man!) and just not being super used to being around other people. You imagine what it would be like to have more density and you imagine the unpleasant things.
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it's a form of loss aversion, I think. Just like people will spend more money to save their sight than a blind person will spend to restore their sight. The blind person knows what not having sight costs and the sighted person overestimates.
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