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Most of silicon valley before the tech boom was orchards. Before the orchards, it was undeveloped land.
An argument could be made that development should have been frozen when it was orchards since it provided food, farming jobs, and bucolic scenery.
Environmentalists perhaps would prefer that even the orchards shouldn't have built and that the land was best kept as natural habitat.
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Most of silicon valley before the tech boom was orchards. Before the orchards, it was undeveloped land.
An argument could be made that development should have been frozen when it was orchards since it provided food, farming jobs, and bucolic scenery.
Environmentalists perhaps would prefer that even the orchards shouldn't have built and that the land was best kept as natural habitat.