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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
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Today, I am offering you an opportunity to win a prize. Really! I am not joking, and it’s a prize worth winning!
Overdevelopment is frequently mentioned here on the Land Use Report, and I am looking right now at the cover of a lovely “coffee table book” devoted to that topic. It measures something like 12″ wide x 17″ high x 1″ thick, with beautiful, glossy photographs. Hunt up today’s blog, and you’ll be able to look at that cover, too.
Let me be clear that the “beautiful” photographs aren’t always of “beautiful” subjects. The book documents the overdevelopment and overpopulation of the natural world. Read through the book and you will likely agree that an “overshoot” is taking place. We are overshooting the ability of the Natural World to sustain the world that we create, the world of our human civilization.
The book I am talking about is Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot. It has been published by a group called Global Population Speakout. Their website will help you understand the kind of organizing efforts that are accompanying the release of the book. You can also read the book online, if you’d like to do that. You can also , of course, but I have five copies to give away free. A kind of contest is going to be involved, and I hope you’ll enter. Instructions are on the website at kusp.org/landuse.
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Former Santa Cruz County Supervisor Gary Patton talks about land use, and land use decisions, with an emphasis on public participation and how the land use process works.