John Adams: 'In the United States, there is a unique focus on the individual, and individual freedoms, often instead of community or ecosystem. Is it time to transition from the paradigm of how we grow to how we thrive?'
Fall color in Little Cottonwood Canyon on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022.UDOT’s proposed multi-million-dollar taxpayer-funded gondola up Little Cottonwood Canyon comes at a time when Utahns’ anxieties about growth are at an all-time high, underscoring the breakdown of sense-making or our ability to come to a consensus.
The economic solution for this conundrum was to manage land by private ownership, providing private goods, and public ownership providing public goods. This economic model implied that privatization could solve “The Tragedy of the Commons” as the short-term gain wouldn’t supersede a long-term investment, and public ownership would protect the commons through regulation.
The gondola plan, along with its ability to enable yet more growth in the canyon, exacerbates confusion as it falls across both public and private concerns. The fragile and intangible value of the canyon, a public resource belonging to the commons and managed for all of us by the federal government, is attempting to be measured against privately owned business desires and their downstream impact on tax revenue.
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