When I was a kid, my dad owned a plane. We flew all over California and the most striking thing I noticed and my dad and I commented upon was how much uninhabited land there is under us. People accumulate in cities, but the mountain forests and plains are vast. Proper permaculture techniques show that the only limitation upon the productiveness of a given acreage, properly managed, is human labor. In other words, the world needs more people, not less. But people acting in harmony with natural systems rather than at war with natural systems.
Ed Abbey once demonstrated that a lake of certain size could safely contain thousands of swimmers, hundreds of canoeists, and about ten speedboats. It's the powers of technology that shrink the world, not the numbers of people. If people just start walking instead of driving, you'd be surprised how big the world gets. Which is one reason I never felt guilty about bringing five kids into the world, despite the anti-people philosophies spread by academia. Before "global warming" it was "population bomb" and after a while I'm thinking Chicken Little can go screw himself. John the jaded. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [John] > > I think being forced to rent space on the earth is obscene. > > One of the rationales for rationing land is to prevent the world > from becoming even more over-populated than it is. > I personally could see a one-time portioning of land to everyone, > > with the understanding that no matter how many decendents they had, > > they would get no additional land. > Craig > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
