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Re: The Limits To Growth



l.mcfadden@mail.utexas.edu (Loretta McFadden) wrote:

>Why are you ignoring the real reason farmland is declining in this country
>(ie: being covered in suburpia) - because so much of it has lost it's
>value as farmland, thanks to the ignorant short-term strip-mining approach
>of petro-chemical farming? 

Betsy,
 
This simply isn't true.  The land being covered by suburbia is not
worn out and useless; it is among the best farmland we have, because
we naturally build cities where the land is good.  It is being pulled
out of farming because it is more useful as roads and housing.

>                          Hey - even the popular press (GASP) has heard
>the news. Much of the best farmland in this country eroded into the ocean
>years ago.
 
And we'll pull it out of the Gulf of Mexico the same way the Dutch
pull it out of the North Sea, the very moment it becomes worthwhile to
do so.
 
                                       -dlj.
 




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