TRADE-OFFS: Two Acres of Farm Lost to Sprawl Each Minute, New Study Says, but Ending Farm Subsidies One Way to Reduce Poverty, Say Groups. There are more trade-offs within the articles. The former notes, "The problem has been growing for two decades. While the nation's population grew 17 percent from 1982 to 1997, the amount of land turned into urban areas increased 47 percent.

"Yet the new outer suburban developments have not eased the pressure for affordable housing, the trust and the homebuilders association said.

"There is a parallel between the growing concern about losing farmland and the growing divide between shelter for the rich and poor in the United States," said Rolf Pendall, a professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University."

That's the same two decades over which we've witnessed more and more calls to "celebrate" social pathologies in the name of diversity.