[MCN] The Wildland-Urban Interface Fastest Growing Land Use in 48 United States

[Lance Olsen]

The Wildland-Urban Interface is the Fastest Growing Land Use Type in the Coterminous United States <https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/data/WUI/>
Between 1990 and 2010, the wildlife-urban interface (WUI), where houses and natural vegetation meet, grew 41 percent in number of houses and 33 percent in terms of land area. One in three houses and one in ten hectares are now part of the WUI. With more houses built near forests, wildfires caused by humans are becoming more common and pose a greater risk to human lives and property.
 
https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/data/WUI/ <https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/data/WUI/>










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Standard of living versus life on Earth. 
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“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for life support are in crisis, and human behavior is the root cause. These problems are ... related to how humans meet their needs and wants in disruptive ways.”
 
Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Britain Scott, Susan Koger

Beyond the Roots of Human Inaction. Science 21 April 2017

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“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. 

“Social status and identity became closely associated with consumption, in particular with the concept of luxury. 

"Identifying oneself with the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs. Debt was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a hedonistic consumer culture.”

Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt>

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“The American way of life is not negotiable.”

George H. W. Bush. 1992

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"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior that is at the annihilating edge."

R. D. Laing. Introduction, The Politics of Experience. 
1967, New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House

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