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Minerals Rights Laws are a Relic of the Frontier

Our minerals rights laws are a relic of the Frontier, and nothing but the result of lots of energy politics. The Mining Law of 1872 is an example. In the late 1800s, with the smell of industrial revolution in our nostrils, we wanted more minerals to grow with. We provided that anyone who wanted to mine on public land had only to file a claim at the county courthouse and put in $100 worth of work on the claim each year.

Miners with a valid claim could gain full title to the land for a fee

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When Renewable Resources Become Nonrenewable

The most important problem with renewable resources is that they are on the brink—some have gone over it—of becoming nonrenewable. The amount of usable land, water, and timber decreases rapidly. Land disappears into deserts or under pavement. Every year a million and a quarter acres of rural land, a third of it cultivated cropland, are given over to other uses—chiefly urban expansion. Cities tend to become greedier as they grow; from 1960 to 1970, the land area of urban centers expanded by 40 percent while population grew by 24 percent. At the same time, formerly good rangeland is deteriorating. The

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GNP Best Measure of Product Production?

Much of the blame for our predicament has been heaped on our economic system and its social and political ramifications. This, however, is somewhat like blaming the car for the gasoline shortage. The origin of the problem lies, rather, in having made the attainment of ever-increasing material consumption our sole open-ended national goal. Obviously, any system or nation seeking infinitely increasing production in a finite world is bound to show, sooner or later, the unmistakable symptoms of its impending, self-destruction.

We have made economics, which reflects only a tiny wedge of the truth of the “real

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