A Missouri community made the right choice by banning a giant data center for at least one year . The move to halt the project has made this Teddy Roosevelt conservationist, conservative and lover of democracy very happy.

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Lynn Schmidt

President Theodore Roosevelt, commonly called “The Conservation President,” saw conservation as a belief in protecting our shared natural heritage for future generations rather than allowing short-term private interests to exhaust resources. Roosevelt’s conservation philosophy was rooted in the idea of stewardship for the common good, a core democratic principle.

Roosevelt also was a conservative for his skepticism about rapid, large-s

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