Deconstructing Destruction

The law is structured (warped by a small oligarchy) to support an industry of real estate scams that would collapse (and periodically does) if taxes and road building and zoning and rubber stamp state assemblies and enabling local officials and corruption did not prop it up. These private interests even use eminent domain to steal private property when it suits their purpose. And their purpose is to chew up the landscape under the illusion of "development". Raw land is termed "unimproved" as if trees (and flowers and wildlife and rivers) were a blight to be erased. It takes centuries for most trees to grow several storeys but only a few minutes for a chainsaw or bulldozer to reduce them to splinters. Trees make the oxygen we breathe and if asthma and shortness of breath and other respiratory problems are on the rise (and they are); then now you know why.

Take away the tax breaks, the easy approvals, the subdivision zoning, the political enablers and the scandals and we might see liveable cities instead of neighborhoods sliced up by noisy freeways and bypasses and exurbs too far away to walk to work, school or shopping. But then high gasoline prices may force us to head back to the cities and fix up homes instead of building more and more homes in a country where new houses sit empty in abandoned suburbs and foreclosed & evicted people are homeless.

There are enough houses in this country. More than enough. We just need to fix up existing houses instead of destroying the Earth to satisfy ravenous developers who manipulate us into overpopulation by glorifying families with too many children that couples cannot feed, educate nor keep healthy and for which government cannot provide jobs when they grow up because corporations are eliminating jobs by sending them overseas and automating the remaining jobs out of existence.

"its so sad to see how arizona is being ruined by these kinds of housing developments." -- quote from doratagold

Real estate "developers" have written the law to give destruction tax breaks, they get the best and easiest bank loans (often they own the banks anyway or the banks own real estate), they get insurance breaks; they have state assemblymen and legislators in their pocket, and judges rule in their favor.

Environmentalists have long known this. But Occupy Wall Street-people and 99% and Tea Party members take note.

(note cops ready to hit demonstrator over head despite US Constitutional rights)
but the politicians are not listening anyway and never will.
Should we give up? Or get ourselves beaten to death trying to be seen by the cameras? The reporters were practically dialing up the police and asking them to hit protestors. Notice how many pundits in the news media are saying "there might be violence" so that the police feel obligated to come and beat people up? Even the "free press" is against us. And after all, the US is us.

Oh My God is exactly it. The developers won't stop for any One.

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First proposed by the RAND Corporation (if memory serves).

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Send mining back underground where it belongs.

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Feel powerless as more acreage is burned, chainsawed, bulldozed and paved over? De-construct the destroyers -- the "developers" and suburban construction companies.