Dear HCN,
The “Grappling With
Growth” issue of Sept. 5 was the best yet, albeit downright
despairing. I’ve been traveling around the West, up and down, back
and forth, for almost 20 years and have yet to find a community
that really had a clue as to what was happening to
it.
Quite frankly, the philosophical concept of
privately owned “land” is one of the root causes of the problem.
Nothing will change until we, as a society, come to realize and
fervently believe that the land doesn’t belong to us; we belong to
the land. And, as Ed Marston pointed out in his essay, much misery
awaits us until this issue is resolved.
Runnin”
wild,
Ramon
Moscow,
Idaho
Ramon, a stalwart of the
anti-logging Cove/Mallard Coalition, describes himself as an
“overage mutant gonzo dingbat.”
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The clueless West.
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