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The WILDER WEST...
the ART & WIT & WISDOM of DAVE WILDER
No Vacancy
Sorry,
folks, but we're full up. No room at the inn you might say. We're
tapped out, overgrazed, overbuilt and under-watered. It's a nice place
to visit, I know, but I'm afraid you just can't live here. I'm talking
about the Southwest of course.
The
numbers are now in for the 2010 census and it seems that Nevada,
Arizona and Utah are among the fastest growing states in the U.S. and
have now surpassed the Midwest in population. Meanwhile, the source of
most of our water, the Colorado River continues to flow far below
historic levels. This scenario is the very picture of
un-sustainability, yet too many of our new neighbors continue to
believe that this type of growth can go on forever, that there is
plenty for all and we can all get rich and live happily ever after here
in South -westernland. Nope. Not everyone can have a house in the
country. Besides, a pink stucco box built within spitting distance of a
hundred other pink stucco boxes is not country living no matter what
lies the realtors tell. Major Powel knew this kind of growth in the
Southwest was a bad idea a hundred years ago. Seems everyone admires
Major Powel but nobody listens to him. It's still a bad idea. The
Southwest actually needs a couple million or so less people to be even
remotely sustainable. Take Phoenix. Please.
Dave Wilder's art can be seen at:
and at the
Laughing Raven Gallery
417 Hull Ave. Jerome, Arizona
and onfacebook:
"David Wilder Arts"
In
fact, do me a favor, if you're one of those folks who really love the
Southwest and are thinking about relocating down this way, could you
think about it a little more? Think about that ugly, overcrowded city
that you despise, that cookie-cutter development, that strip mall, that
big-box-Chinese-crap-store and then imagine them superimposed onto
those lovely Arizona Highways landscapes that you've been dreaming of.
Then love it enough not to live here. It's not just you; it's all of us.
If you come, they will build it.
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