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Re: The Limits To Growth



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

>DLJ - I'm not going to argue with you - according to the articles I read
>on the subject, some of California's best farmland IS worn-out and useless
>from a cropping standpoint, thanks to poor stewardship. "We naturally
>build cities where the land is good" - if this somewhat random statement
>is true, isn't it a tragedy to lose former cropland and wildlands to
>suburpia? But that's another discussion, I suppose. "It is being pulled
>out of farming because it is NOW more useful as roads and housing" - add
>that one word and we're in perfect agreement, so what's your point?
 
Whaddya mean, what's my point?  You just got through agreeing with me.
What's _your_ point?  :-)
>  
>> 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.
>
>Sounds dramatic and exciting - real John Wayne movie material.
 
Not a John Wayne fan, and setting up windmills to push the water back
>from  the vastly expanded Mississippi delta (and to keep New Orleans
dry) does not strike me as high noon material.  It is, however, one of
the ways we live by our wits, and improve our standard of living as we
go.
 
                                 -dlj.
 





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