While I was in Colorado, all I did was spend five days staring at miles and miles of rolling hills covered with green grass and mountain ranges that seemed to stretch as far as my eye could see. I was amazed that this wide open space I was staring at looked exactly the same when someone else was staring at it hundreds of years ago. Back then, they had little but what they carried in their wagons when they traveled here to start a new life – but now – I flew there on an airplane to attend a Convention because of a job a have on the Internet – and when we looked straight ahead in this same direction – we saw the exact same thing.

I then noticed that as I got closer to the City, something was different about the view I saw farther away from the City – Unlike the view I saw before – these grass covered rolling hills had something right in the middle of them that the people that stood here before me did not see – hotel/restaurant and housing complexes.

As the “living space” in this country continues to decrease while the population in this country continues to increase – the need to develop more housing becomes a necessity. And when the states and cities we live in become overpopulated – we build new ones. And the more this pattern repeats itself – the more we begin to scar the untouched land that has been an testament to what this country was before we started drilling into it, digging under it – and living over it.

I realize that we have to create new homes to house all of America’s citizens, but there is a difference between demolishing one house to erect another – and building a hotel/restaurant or housing complex in a place where the only thing that was on top of that land before it was the sky.

Let me ask you a question, what is going to happen to this country when there is no more land to build on? Remember the planet Courasant in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace? The entire planet was one giant City. No matter if it takes a thousand, two thousand – or ten thousand years – if we don’t preserve some of this land now – that is precisely what we will eventually become – one giant City.

The ironic thing is that when I visited South Park, Colorado – the town of the same name as the television show I work for and the reason for me coming there – I visited the town’s museum. In it, they had hundreds of man’s creations from the past. From old printing presses to ancient dentist’s tools – to even an old steam engine train – all of them were preserved “as was” behind glass for all time. How about preserving the land that God created “as was” for all time?

I know that as we move farther and farther into the 21st Century – these new developments will increase – and the preserved, natural – and untouched land this country has will decrease – because as we build farther and farther into the outskirts of a City – the outskirts will stretch further and further into the untouched land until the outskirts of one City touch the outskirts of another – because there is no more land to build on between them…

…and then what?