Tech Billionaires' "Freedom Cities" Idea

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Even MAGA Is Pissed Off About Tech Bros' Dream of Bulldozing Federal Lands to Create New Cities

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Utah Senator Mike Lee pulled a provision from the omnibus bill that would have allowed development of 1.2 million acres of federal land to be sold off by the Bureau of Land Management and then developed for affordable housing and other private interests.

The National Parks Conservation Association has said that the bill, had it gone through, would have opened up federal lands directly adjacent to national parks.

Despite aggressive disinterest from a majority of Americans , the lobby to create tech billionaires’ network of libertarian dystopias is still in place, and efforts to deregulate and ultimately develop public lands are still ongoing. That’s concerning, given this is clearly a government that doesn’t care much for the environment. Indeed, the Trump administration recently opened up tens of millions of acres in national forests to potential logging. It just goes to show, you can’t keep a bad idea down (as long as the idea belongs to a billionaire)..

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