Bonus Episode: Cashing In On The Desert
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The New Commodification of the Mojave Instagram
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The image of the desert that is being marketed now via Instagram or via influencers? It's a life with an affordable house, an affordable mortgage, open skies, you can hike anywhere. What they leave out are things like heavy wildfire risk. We talked about Jan Adel Rio before the socialist utopia. Their main problem was hostility from right-wing ranchers who surrounded them. They all got together and sued Yano over water rights.
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