File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0007, message 67


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



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