A short essay on the need to protect and enhance our rural areas.
November 30, 2001
5 Reasons To Keep Farms: The case for agricultural protection and keeping this sector strong and healthy.
Changing Face of Kenyen Road: Development on a beautiful rural and free dirt road.
Getting Your Hands Dirty: Farming and forestry are dirty but rewarding jobs.
How the West Was Lost: A look at the battle for open space in Albany County.
In Exburbia, Suburbia and Urbania: While our landscapes are diverse they are all special.
Irrational Farmers: How the irrational nature of farming can be benifical to our lives.
Suburbia: Greatest Threat to the Environment: When people are distant from the environment they forget about it.
Weak Economy Protecting Rural Life: Why job growth is bad for open space and the environment.
Why Do People Farm?: Looking a psychology behind farming.
As America we need space. We need State Forests, Preserves and Wild Life Managment areas to protect our animals and natural resources for Americans to enjoy—and space for people to be were buildings aren't.
We need rural areas and farms. Why? It's a unique endangered culture, that needs to space to exist. It's not perfect, but it's much different then cities.
Yes, we can mass produce food, like anything else. Unforently, in our society it's becoming almost essential that more and more is mass produced.
Yet mass production sucks. It produces inferior quality product. It does not promote development of alternative and creative cultures, that make the bedstone of American life.
We need areas that aren't so poluted, that we have to watch every step to avoid pollution. Where the effects of minor polution won't destroy whole ecosystems because it steps over the line of not harmful to harmful.
It's where a little oil spilled, a little runoff, a little bit of toxic smoke won't forever destroy the world.
The country. Doing stuff a little bit different.
Copyright ©1999-2008 Andy Arthur.
All mistakes are intentional or otherwise.
Mind where you step in a cow pasture or legal mindfield.