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A municipality in the rural parts, but that can look a bunch of different ways depending on where you are. Ex: I am in an unincorporated town, and we are struggling against extremely strict UGB-type rules that exclude us from adding a lot of what we need to function.

An estimated 2% of my rural county's residents are unhoused, many of them trying to shelter in public forests.
We have some of the strictest urban growth boundary regulations in the country. People literally die waiting for homes, and I just wish we were allowed to solve our own problems.

I support vacancy taxes, but a person currently living and working in a rural area about to be priced out of their rent can't just then move to an urban center on the hope that taxes will free up an empty house soon.

When people fight housing development in rural areas, saying, "New housing will only be allowed inside Urban Growth Boundaries," and then people in the urban centers say, "No new housing. Go away, we're full," then what is anyone supposed to do?

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Clothing production is also a leading industry in consumption of water, and makes about 5-7% of global waste in landfills.
Mechanical looms are still deeply necessary to our world, and why who owns the profit of tech advancements, conditions of labor are as salient as they ever were for Luddites.

The callbacks to the luddites during AI discussions are more apt I think than people realize. Mechanized looms indeed changed the world, and have made much of our modern life possible, and certainly that is why the labor conflicts they raised were as real and urgent!

There are states where they're trying to identify ideal renewable wind/solar corridors and improve the amount of permitting fast lanes for projects, incl transmission lines - where we are most behind bc of multiple jurisdictions. I'd love to see cities do the same across their zoning categories!

And trust me, I think local zoning laws should change to make it easier to do distributed solar. But I want people to have some curiosity about why it's one of the principle barriers to renewable energy goals. It's why it takes ~10 years to start a solar project on one property in one jurisdiction!

People love to say instead of solar farms we should "put solar on buildings and over parking lots."
It's a nice idea, but we generally don't because the amount needed for grid-scale generation would invite an impressive pileup of permits for dozens of private properties, easements, jurisdictions.

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I get it, people used to have very little sense of the consequences of clear cutting v plantation forestry.
In the first pic you can see how bald our area was when steam ships consumed 2 cords of wood an hour. People planted back in, added oaks (we added vine maples) and it really did recover.

Exactly. I get that so much of the fear and caution was built out of real ecosystem destruction. Grateful for how much has and continues to change for the better.

I think that’s it. I get that it looks shocking, but it’s a 25-50 year rotation. And we often have so little idea of how much we live around was what just grew back in the late 20th century ex: when we stopped deforesting to fuel steam power.

How much timber we can harvest in America is extremely regulated, to the point where poor rural timber counties like mine are given (highly volatile, sadly politicized) grants to NOT harvest, putting our schools constantly on a knife’s edge of closing when the republicans slack on reauthorizing.

I live in a county where almost all of the land is owned by the Fed, and the US Forest Service logs it for cash too! We have human emotional reactions to the harvested parts but really, it does grow back. It captures even more carbon, and grows unique cycles of native plants as it does so.

I don’t like getting in people’s mentions about it, but I have to wonder: if you’re against logging (which has come a long way in terms of legal compliance and science-backed sustainability practices) what do you think your house is made of? Where does the next house come from? “Somewhere else?”

Both of them.

Reminding myself it's almost never worth it to reply to people who are like, "Ugh as a city person I am done hearing about the feelings of rural people."
I get it, but also the "feelings" you hear about are generally some pundit's centrist fanfic. Rural people are people, they feel how you feel.

The part of this I get as a rural abortion access activist: it can be tough to start knee-deep in any area’s longest-standing problems.
My county doesn’t even have an OBGYN, so people are like, “Yeah no shit there’s no abortion provider, I can’t even get in with a dentist.” Worth the fight, anyway.

Thanks for saying something truthful instead of some nasty stereotype about rural people. A lot of the other comments, quotes around this article are really bumming me out.

You hear about “feelings” because tokenizing some guy in a diner is more useful to the establishment than actually doing anything for people in rural places. Everyone has to read a million insipid think pieces and our hospitals and schools close down just the same.

Thank you! 14 years and 10 of them in public service cleared out 6 figures for me. I still cannot believe it worked out in the end!

The boltie was a “Congrats on finishing your public service student loan forgiveness!” gift to myself. Gun cost less than half a student loan payment. Scope will be a whole one.
I’ve said this before, but there’s a metaphor in there somewhere.

Black Tikka T3x rifle resting horizontally on a tripod at an outdoor shooting spot, with a clear-cut hillside, scattered saplings, and a few standing trees under a bright blue sky in the background.

My scope didn’t come in yet, so we broke in my bolt-action in just its birthday suit.
I want it on record that even without iron sights I still got pretty damn close, like a foot off the paper at 100 yards. No sights no scope no problem, lol.

Hit my first long range rifle skills goal today, almost accidentally. 100 yards in the wind with my lever-action .22 cowgirl gun, iron sights. A varmint hates to see me coming.

We don't often stand back, take stock of how powerful a change the movement created: safe abortion at home with pills.
This is how the abortion access movement across the world defies the will of even brutal carceral governments. It is not without suffering and difficulty, but it is done every day.

I think a lot about how lucky I am that I got a front row seat to a lot of this change, supporting people working every day to talk about self-managed abortion with pills, work with clinicians to build trust, refine how we distribute and support people. With strong hands, they pulled it into life.

Despite the proven track record of misoprostol (hen the combo with mifepristone) to safely end pregnancy outside of a clinical setting, it would take decades of serious, persistent grassroots destigmatization work for the establishment, esp in the US to accept it, a now critical Post-Roe lifeline.

Self-managed abortion went from often deadly risks to now safer than taking tylenol.
How it began: Brazilian feminists in the 1980s noticed on misoprostol, an ulcer medication, warnings not to take if pregnant as it could induce miscarriage. What if someone took it on purpose to end a pregnancy?