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Letter from the Desert: Western Solar Plan

Letter from the Desert: Western Solar Plan

I ordered a solar eclipse, not a solar apocalypse

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Chris Clarke
Aug 31, 2024
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Every time I start to think we might be at a social inflection point, where people in general begin to understand that there is value worth preserving in the desert landscape, that arid lands are not just blank slates upon which it is legitimate for us to scrawl our fleeting but destructive whimsies, I get brought up short.

Today, the Bureau of Land Man…

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