From: "john bechtel" <dsidnt-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: urban industry Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:40:39 GMT Humans (and Comrade Carpol Pot), A little clarification on my 'industry in urban centers' point; I fuuly understand the how and why of a cities existance. But that was why I made a point of '6 billion people'. Could the Earth support that many rural communities? Also, in what I imagine a better future looks like, commuting from the urban-residential areas to the urban-industrial areas wouldn't be necessary. When I lived in LA my drive was 40-50 minutes one way (yeah, I coulda found a job closer). As is typically the case the exclusively indutrial town I worked in was surrounded by poor neighborhoods (where I grew up). In a better world those people who worked in the factories wouldn't be 'poor' (or perhaps no factories will be needed, but that's another can o' worms). But then what do those distant exclusively residential suburbs do? That is why I asked about urban industry. As for the mass die-off, that relates to my point of depopulating the cities. The die-offs in Africa, and elsewhere, are small compared to what (I think) would be necessary to be able for humankind to live a more agrarian life. I'm not advocating such a die-off, of course. Just wondering if substainability is possible at present population lvels. Later dudes, John "And when one day our human kind becomes full grown, it will not define itself as the sum total of the whole worlds inhabitants, but as the infinite unity of their mutual needs." Jean-Paul Sartre ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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