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Americans have always been defined by their boundaries.
It begins with The vast, undeveloped west, Historian Frederick Jackson Turner described “new areas of opportunity, escape from the bondage of the past” in an influential essay in 1893.
The border was closed when Turner placed his pen on paper. Space is the “final border” in Star Trek, an American imagination of animation for some time, but the project seems to have been eliminated after the initial excitement of bringing a man to the moon.
President Donald Trump promised to revive the dream in his second inaugural address, telling the crowd: “We will incorporate obvious destiny into the stars and launch American astronauts to plant stars and stripes on planet Mars.” Elon Musk’s innovation on SpaceX will help make the dream a reality and cheer for it.
There are a lot of open spaces in the United States. But only 13% of federal land is in national parks. File: Sky Valley, Georgia, Blue Valley overlooking, Nantahara National Forest, Panoramic View, Appalachian Blue Ridge Mountains. (Photographer: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images via Get Images group)
But space cannot be like the frontiers of the American West. In the 19th century, any sturdy lad from the East Coast or the Midwest could pack a van and provide lights to the territory. The Homestead Act of 1862 distributed 1.6 million parcels of federal land in the West. Space has no such promise to everyone. Astronauts are well-trained experts, not ordinary people with common sense and good work ethics. Large-scale spatial colonization that makes the solar system a true border could be a century or more.
But there are other ways to restore the pioneer spirit. Obtaining Greenland will open up new environments for Hardy’s potential homestead, but Trump still has a choice even if the Danes refuse to play.
The U.S. government owns about 620 million acres of land, which accounts for about 27% of the country. More than one third That land is in Alaska, The rest is mainly concentrated in Western countries such as Arizona (38% of federal land), Colorado (36%), Idaho (62%) and Nevada (80%). National parks account for only 13% of federal land, leaving many development opportunities.
Two of Trump’s cabinet secretaries are already in the case.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner published a Wall Street Journal on March 16 and proposed a joint effort Solve the housing crisis in the United States.
“Under this agreement, HUD will point out the most pressing places for housing needs by working with state and local leaders who know their communities best and guide the process. The Interior Department will determine where homes can be supported while carefully considering environmental impacts and land use restrictions,” they wrote. “Together, our agencies can count underutilized federal property, transfer or lease them to states or territories to meet housing needs and support infrastructure that makes development viable while ensuring affordability remains at the heart of the mission.”
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After four years of Biden-Harris housing policy, the United States needs such a bold move, which has soared rents and the cost of median-price homes exceeds twice. Apart from a few ambiguous noises about building more homes, the only major solution they offer is in the first-time home buyers (which makes housing inflation worse) and the new race-based regulations that favor one racial group over another, which ultimately doesn’t help.
They also sued RealPage, which produces lease pricing software (which will have no impact on prices, as the software only reflects existing market conditions and even recommends lower prices when demand drops). For this reason, Americans carried out tax reforms and more than 30 conservative groups sent a letter opposing the Biden Justice Department lawsuit.
The federal government owns more than 200 million acres of land in Alaska only. File: Views of downtown Juno in Tongas National Forest in Juneau, Alaska on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. (Photo by Salwan Georges/Getty Images)
Unlike the hacking ideas we have seen in the Biden administration, the possibilities for Burgum and Turner’s housing plans are endless. Liberals may find super-created charter cities ruled by CEOs. Devout Catholics can build intentional communities centered on monasteries. Crispy host families can grow everything they eat on a few acres of land (if they agree to host students in the new federal sustainable agriculture training program and get the land at a discount).
Ambitious young people (and women) are flooded into the city suddenly have other options than high rents and small town stagnation. In a startup city on previously undeveloped federal lands, they could become founding fathers (or mothers) and help shape vibrant new communities in the unstained natural beauty. They can even keep their old remote work when they are done.
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For the poor, desperate, former liar, residents of a bad neighborhood or dying town, face high chances of taking risks due to underworld shootings or fentanyl overdoses. Anyone willing to work hard and bravely abandon familiarity can light up the territory and live a better life. Go west, young man, rebirth!
Indeed, much of the land is powerless, but so is Las Vegas, which grew from 800 in 1910 to nearly 600,000 a century later. Imagine: In just a few decades, there might be a new American city rising from a desert or a prairie with its own industry, art world, signature dishes and iconic landmarks, its unique cultural “brand”. This will be a challenge, but we are the countries destined to colonize Mars. Of course, we can handle rural Idaho.
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