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...brings us to greater Atlanta, 1999. Once a wilderness, it's now a 13-county eruption, one that has been called the fastest-spreading human settlement in history. Already more than 110 miles across, up from just 65 in 1990, it consumes an additional 500 acres of field and farmland every week. What it leaves behind is tract houses, access roads, strip malls, off ramps, industrial parks and billboards advertising more tract houses where the peach trees used to be. Car exhaust is such a problem that Washington is withholding new highway funding until the region complies with federal clean...
...many, including Barker, the settlement may be way too little and way too late to reverse the damage done by decades of institutional racism. Black farmers now own less than 1% of the farmland in the U.S.; at the turn of the century that figure was 14%. In 1920 nearly 1 million black farmers tilled American soil; 70 years later, that number had dropped to fewer than...
China also lusts after cars, of course, and manufactures and imports as many as possible. Road building in China swallows scarce farmland, and traffic chokes streets and highways. Coal heats the chilly north, generates electricity and fouls the air. To Hertsgaard, big-shot capitalism seems a scourge--though not to the newly prosperous Chinese he meets, who brag that they get used to bad air. This single nation, the author observes, holds veto power over any environmental reforms the rest of the world may choose...
...small businesses. Ray Kroc and McDonald's have given us unhealthy, tasteless food and a lot of low-paying jobs. Worst of all was your choice of builder William Levitt and Levittown's clone houses. Similar suburban developments have resulted in the paving over of thousands of acres of farmland and forest. These people were not visionaries; they were opportunists who diminished the American quality of life while enhancing their own personal wealth. MATTHEW D. MORAN Conway...
...have made their runoff water twice as clean as the legal standard. The $3 billion-to-$8 billion Everglades repair cost is for replumbing the entire water system of South Florida, where the population has grown tenfold since the system's construction in the 1950s, with suburbs pushing out farmland. Sugar farmers have spent millions meeting one of the nation's toughest water-quality standards. Rather than sparing sugar, the 1995 farm bill ended domestic acreage allotments, restricted low-risk loans and created a domestic free market in sugar. The industry has seen radical restructuring since the law passed. Today...