Move where? Overpopulation is a major underlying cause of almost all of the environmental problems that consume so much of our attention and is also a significant factor in many current social problems, but it's hardly a local phenomenon. The world population continues to grow, the population of our country continues to grow, every state in which I have lived has had increasing population, and every city in which I have lived has experienced population growth along with its resulting problems. As long as this trend continues, how can you expect moving elsewhere to provide anything more than temporary relief? If you find a desirable place to move, free from the problems of overpopulation, then what's to prevent lots of other people from moving there, too, and thereby creating the same overcrowded conditions you moved there to escape? To truly escape overcrowding, you could try moving to a location with problems so great that few people would want to live there (in which case, you might not want to live there either) or you could try moving to a location so expensive that few people can afford to live there (in which case, you might not be able to afford it either) or you could try moving to a location so restrictive that few people are allowed to live there (in which case, you might not be allowed in either). Any other little haven you find is bound to fill up with people who, like you, are trying to get away from all those other people in the overcrowded cities. If all the people fretting over the numerous environmental and social problems resulting from overpopulation were to focus instead on the primary underlying cause, we might reverse this trend and see real progress towards long range solutions and improving quality of life for future generations. This applies both to most of the cave related environmental issues that are considered "on topic" for Texascavers and to the many less cave related environmental and social issues that are considered "off topic" here. Rod -----Original Message----- From: Aimee Beveridge Sent: Aug 4, 2011 9:40 AM To: Fritz Holt , 'wesley s' , "[email protected]" Subject: Re: [Texascavers] OT- Austinites, here come the brown outs I understand that 1,000 a week move to the Austin area alone. Time to move! From: Fritz Holt To: 'wesley s' ; "[email protected]" Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 4:27 PM Subject: RE: [Texascavers] OT- Austinites, here come the brown outs I have been a few other places but would never want to live anywhere but in Texas --- but not in Houston . Fritz From:wesley s [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 4:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Texascavers] OT- Austinites, here come the brown outs http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=1302&z=29 "If the capacity shortage is not relieved by the contract demand response, ERCOT escalates to a Power Emergency (Energy Emergency Alert Level 3) and will instruct utilities to reduce demand on the grid by conducting temporary outages at the local distribution level. These controlled temporary interruptions of electrical service ??" or rotating outages ??" typically last 15-45 minutes before being rotated to a different neighborhood." Granated they are only predicting to go to level one today possibly level two, but we have all of Aug to go and a bunch of soft newcomers living in Texas for thier first summer. Fun Fact-- [Did you know that averaged over an annual sample period over 1000 people move to Texas each day.] stay cool y'all, Wes~ References: http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/jan/13/rick-perry/perry-says-1000-people-move-texas-daily/ http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2011/07/08/forbes-calls-austin-americas-no-1.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] |
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