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ONE OF the major problems encountered by those who want to save open space and preserve farming is the diversity of views held by the very advocates themselves. Compared to the monolithic motivation of the opposition, based as it is on that overpowering emotion, greed, the farmers, land-planners, conservationists, ecologists, nature-lovers (the “crazies,” hard-headed business realist types insist) come on as a disorganized, fragmented, frequently uncontrollable mob.
They’ll all profess to be after the same end—saving the land for farming, say, or halting unwise suburban sprawl—but when it comes to particulars, then everybody parts company. More often than not, they’ll be on the same side for wildly different reasons. Sometimes they’ll disagree on practically everything except the very bot„ tom line, and that’s not even guaranteed.
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