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    So nice of the 100 largest land owning families to have the same amount of land as the entire urban or rural housing population of the rest of the country. I assume it’s to fatten themselves up for the rest of us just like the cows.

    When do we get to eat them again?

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      It would be a subset of “urban commercial”, right? Somewhere in the range of half to three-quarters of it?

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        Depends how these are defined. Public parking or on-street parking are likely in a different category, not to mention people’s driveways.

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    Can we put the 100 largest landowning families in Florida, then saw it off from the rest of the country?

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    How nice for the Reed family/Green Diamond to be split into ‘private family owned timberland’ and ‘corporate timberland’.

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    This graph is confusing because there are state lines drawn underneath, but it’s not saying by state.

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      That’s the federal wildfire sanctuary established by president William McKinney. While most fire has been domesticated, the remaining feral fire is allowed to burn free in Utah.

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        I heard that even though the fire was born here, it has illegal flameborn parents so they’re going to put it on a cargo ship with a bunch of pallets and deport it and that’s how we’ll solve the wildfire issue. Saw it on Joe rogan

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      The black lines used for borders could be that. I’m not saying it is, just that it might be close to the amount used by roads other than rural highways.

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    It seems a little inefficient to put all the airports together

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    I have certainly heard of Weyerhauser, but had no idea they were that big. They’re the only ‘individual’ owner shown. The land-owning families is odd as I’m sure it overlaps a lot with pasture and private timberland.

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    Remember, not all land is the same. Some is too dry to grow human food. Some too wet. There are also other things that land is either too or not enough.

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      I bet we could still multiply output by a decent number by replacing meat production with directly edible crops, if there was a need for it

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      What? There are lots of legitimate complaints about the meat and dairy industries, but almost all that land being used for them is arid, rocky wasteland that has a cow wander over it twice a year. That’s not actually even on the list of problems with those industries.