The destruction of rural America for the benefit of the urban environments is nothing new, but continues to intensify.
First it was timber clearing for the construction of homes.
Then came vast deforestation for energy demands of forges, home heating, and civilization advancements and increased standards of living.
Next came the soil degradation, plowing every inch of land imaginable for food and agricultural commodities.
The agricultural advancements resulted in rural fragmentation and depopulation.
As those advancements accelerated we've seen industrial agricultural buildings destroy rural ecosystems to feed the growing population.
The increasing population itself is a threat on rural America in the form of suburban sprawl and loss of prime agricultural land. Lancaster county, PA among the BEST QUALITY soils on the entire planet has been overtaken by housing, leaving those soils unproductive under roads and lawns.
Technological advancements are now spreading data centers into rural America, while consumerism is pushing massive warehouses further and further into rural areas and ideal farmland. These facilities are massive and require large tracts of flat land--again, the most productive for growing food or raising livestock.
Next phase will be micro nuclear sites to address power grid shortages and beyond that who knows.
The only safe space for long term Bitcoin citadels, intentional communities, and disconnecting from clown world will be mountain tops, ridges, and otherwise undesirable elevations and geographies illsuited for vast construction projects.
I loath urban and suburban environments. They fuel clown behavior and fiat mentality.