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    1. Jake Anbinder‏ @JakeAnbinder 8 Feb 2021

      Jake Anbinder Retweeted

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Feb 2021
      Replying to @JakeAnbinder

      The emptiest places often produce the most profound anti-natalists. I've always wondered why.

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        2. Stephen Judkins‏ @stephenjudkins 8 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JakeAnbinder

          Ted Kaczynski had some thoughts on this

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Feb 2021
          Replying to @stephenjudkins @JakeAnbinder

          Yes but also Edward Abbey. The paleo-conservatives were very interested in him in the 1980s.

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        2. Matthew Zeitlin‏Verified account @MattZeitlin 8 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JakeAnbinder

          The way it’s justified in the American west is “running out of water”

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        3. Matthew Zeitlin‏Verified account @MattZeitlin 8 Feb 2021
          Replying to @MattZeitlin @HeerJeet @JakeAnbinder

          Also the idea that the habitable zone is actually tiny, between the pacific and the coastal range

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        2. Allison‏ @allisons 8 Feb 2021
          Replying to @theamazingdrj @HeerJeet @JakeAnbinder

          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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        2. Gabe Ross‏ @gabrielmbross 8 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JakeAnbinder

          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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        3. Allison‏ @allisons 8 Feb 2021
          Replying to @gabrielmbross @HeerJeet @JakeAnbinder

          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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        2. Allison‏ @allisons 8 Feb 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JakeAnbinder

          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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        3. Allison‏ @allisons 8 Feb 2021
          Replying to @allisons @HeerJeet @JakeAnbinder

          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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