"John David Galt" <jdg@diogenes.sacramento.ca.us> wrote:
> If there were ever a shortage of scenic, natural terrain, then the
> price
> of land kept that way would rise enough that it would pay to maintain
> it
> and charge admission to the hikers, campers, and hunters.
>
> The fact that it hasn't happened yet through the free market shows
> that
> there is no such shortage, nor any prospect of one. Way too much land
> is unbuilt and going to waste now. Anyone who tells you different is
> lying.

You just need to fly across the country and look out the window to see
how much land is uninhabited.
pj