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Re: Living off the Planet (none / 0)
Sometimes people forget how big the U.S. is, area-wise--and how much concentrated wealth there is to buy property. The entire District of Columbia is smaller than many, many privately owned ranches.

The King Ranch in Texas is 3340 square kilometers. One guy owns 2.2 million acres (about 9000 sq km) of property, bigger than a couple of states. If pollution from fracking were really to become a problem, it would be trivially easy for these guys to buy a "ranch" in Nevada or Texas or some other god-forsaken backwater and just put it all in a "pond."

Sort of like we were trying to do with nuclear waste there for a while...

http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-private-landowners-2013-10

by asdf on Sun Oct 6th, 2013 at 11:56:47 AM EST
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