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Locals Oppose ‘Insane’ Plan to Sell 500,000 Acres of Public Lands for Housing in Nevada and Utah (insideclimatenews.org)

submitted 6 days ago by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/environment@beehaw.org

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Nevada’s congressional delegation, environmental groups, tribes and local officials see the late-night amendment to House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill as a threat to the state's water resources, tribal sovereignty and public engagement.

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I guarantee that by "housing" they actually mean "private estates."

There's no way they let us peasants live on former parkland.

And what that means too is that it will accomplish absolutely nothing to combat the housing crisis. It'll just be even more land owned by rich fucks, and just one step closer to the neo-feudalism of which they dream.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To the native animals who currently live there, all humans are rich fucks.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

That too.

I should've clarified that the near certainty that "housing" is a deliberately misleading term there is more in the nature of adding insult to injury.