Doyle Saylor wrote: > > Greetings Economists, > On May 7, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > > > don't know, but how does this idea deal with the problems faced by > > those who live in areas with inadequate public transport? > > Doyle; > At a minimum it tells places that have no sidewalks or places to walk > to, that without cars and planning for that a very serious crisis can > happen for residents. One day off focused on the problem might help > get a large scale social shift started.
The problem with any proposed "large scale social shift" is that in most instances the proposed change is achievable only after a large scale shift has ALREADY been achieved. The only significant large-scale shift in my lifetime has been the elimination of Jim Crow in the South, which was confirmed by legislation but which was actually brought about by the massive illegal activity of a minority of the population. (I include the northern urban riots as well as the mass civil disobedience in the South.) Other significan social changes at the time were merely derivative from that. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
