Tom Reese wrote: > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>In a message dated 7/23/2006 8:43:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>The problem is that the overpopulation problem isn't in the 1st world >>nations (except Japan). > > > > That depends on your point of view. If the US had (a lot) fewer people then > we wouldn't have to import oil, gasoline would be cheaper, states wouldn't > have so many problems with water supply, our forests wouldn't be vanishing, > we wouldn't have so many species on the brink of extinction, building lots > wouldn't be prohibitively expensive etc etc etc. > > Tom Reese > >
Note that the US has significantly more forested area than it did 200 years ago. This is due to much of the farmland in the eastern US being reclaimed by forests as small-acrage farming became non-viable over the last 50 years. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
