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DESCRIPTION:Brave a free walking tour exploring through San Francisco social movement 
 history the following conundrum.\n\nIn the non-human natural world the 
 world brims with biomass. You couldn't add another dollop of protoplasm per 
 acre of any habitat and see it linger; all the life that can squeeze in is 
 already in; evolution assures that.\n\nBut when it comes to human habitat, 
 what do you find? A bunch of squeaming, scheming, screaming egos making a 
 case for why they oughtn't to have to pay the full market value of their 
 patch of earth to the rest of humanity to stay out. A plethora of "I'm a 
 special case" special interests holler for a market rent grab. The result:  
 sub-optimal use of human habitat with the consequence that inordinate 
 pressure is put upon the habitat that remains. Speculative rents. Extensive 
 use of land. Urban creep. Suburban creep. Agricultural displacement to the 
 margin. Imposition upon wild places.\n\nYet rather than address that, 
 environmental orgs and housing rights orgs and fair wages orgs and 
 immigrant rights orgs and nativist orgs set up shop to save the panda, save 
 the homeless, save the low-income, save the refugee, save the fatherland. 
 As though the panda doesn't simply need humans to use human habitat 
 optimally and leave pandas alone. As though the unhoused wouldn't 
 sufficiently house themselves if only the landed paid the unhoused not to 
 use the titled land. As though the low-income wouldn't have higher income 
 if only the landowner weren't pocketing the Earth's rent the low-income pay 
 to the land owners. As though the refugee wouldn't stay home if only the 
 land owner weren't saying "Get off my land or I'll beat you silly." As 
 though any speculator would come around buying US land if they had to 
 surrender the annual market rent of that land back to the US.\n\nNGOs exist 
 because addressing the land question would put an end to the need for the 
 NGOs.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/25/18855652.php
SUMMARY:Puttin' on the fritz: Faking housing failures to ensure NGO salaries. A walking tour
LOCATION:American Youth Hostel\n312 Mason Street\n(meet in the lobby)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/25/18855652.php
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