Re: carrying capacity in California

["Nathan Newman" <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What is says is that California under its methodology could not feed itself
on its own resources.  Aside from whatever analyses might be made against
that point, even if true, so what?   Plenty of states in the US's middle
west export far more food than they consume and there are many states that
also export to California in trade for other goods.

I'm not sure who is producing the stats Mark is distributing, but the term
"carrying capacity" is associated with a racist faction of immigrant-bashing
environmentalists who a few years ago sought to take over the Sierra Club.
There kinds of analysis have an autarchic flavor that ignore the
environmental and economic benefits of immigration to California or the US,
both for this country and for the countries that may relieve pressure on
their food capacities and environments by lessening their population
pressures.

Nathan Newman
nathan@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nathannewman.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Jones" <jones118@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Pen-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 3:19 AM
>Subject: [PEN-L:14441] carrying capacity in California


This is an MS excel attachment, it seems to work, apologies if attachments
are against the rules on this list. If it doesn't come thru I can supply it
privately.

It details California carrying capacity and population overshoot by county.
I don't endorse it since I don't know enough about the underlying
methodology to judge. As they say, I'm sceptical, but...

Mark Jones