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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
On 23 Nov 1996 00:13:32 GMT, "Mike Asher" <masher@tusc.net> wrote:
>Matt Kennel <mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Sure, you can shoehorn a few billion people into Texas, but WOULD
>> THEY WANT TO?? Of course not, it wouldn't be that nice a place to live.
>
>Your conclusion doesn't neccesarily follow. At the population density of
>Tokyo, we can fit 2 trillion people or so on the planet. Yet people still
>move to Tokyo by choice, I might add.
>
>Personally, I'd rather not live in Tokyo, but somewhere with a population
>density of no more than 1% of that. So, lets not let world population rise
>about 20 billion, ok?
If you had a population density 1% of Tokyo's, everybody would live
ten houses away instead of next door. Imagine the leaf raking and
snow shovelling it would take. Imagine the walk to the bus!
In Tokyo they eat with their elbows tucked in; when they're drinking
they put their arms around one another. These mean they have much
more space than Americans.
-dlj.
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