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Michael Childers

@michaelchilders.bsky.social

Environmental historian of the American West https://www.michaelwchilders.com/

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The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · last yr.

Yosemite National Park has been at the center of debates over privatization for over 150 years. The struggle between preservation and profit continues to shape its future, according to a historian. buff.ly/3pVI0C5 By @michaelchilders.bsky.social, Colorado State University

Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization

Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.

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Patrick McCray@patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Silicon Valley was—and remains—an experiment, one that many cities and regions, ignoring the contingencies of its history, are quixotically attempting to replicate." On reading @jasonheppler.org 's new book. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirt...

Dirty Digits and “Pleasant Landscapes”: On Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism” | Los Angeles Review of Books

After reading Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism,” Patrick McCray decides that Silicon Valley should really be called Arsenic Valley....

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