Government leased land tends to contribute far more to climate change. Landowners tend to be better stewards of their property than renters or bureaucrats. Exa

Government leased land tends to contribute far more to climate change. Landowners tend to be better stewards of their property than renters or bureaucrats. Examples include cattle overgrazing on BLM land, fracking on leased land, military activities (the worst offender of them all) and really any mineral/oil/gas/water exploitation in which the user has no incentive to keep the land in good quality (e.g. maintaining a resale value). It's counterintuitive, but unless you make it all a National Park, pretty much every other government land use will cause more harm than privatization.