Furthermore, with the advent of global environmental problems, environmentalism is no longer a local concern.
Much environmental devastation is caused by our system of land tenure.
As a community grows, large areas are acquired for speculation. Thus all the facilities needed for a growing population are stretched out and made more expensive - transportation, utilities, water supply, garbage disposal, markets and other requirements. If this condition were corrected, people and industries could move out from the centers of population at a more normal pace, thus making unnecessary the waste and expense, and a premature invasion of nature. Land value taxation would make this condition possible, as people could then acquire sites closer to the centers more cheaply. Furthermore, people could enjoy both the advantages of urban culture as well as proximity to nature, instead of, as now, either being crowded in the city or settled so far away that urban amenities are not conveniently available.