Re: Re: carrying capacity in California

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still don't see why the charge of unsustainability is equivalent to
calling for some kind of mass extermination.  The carrying capacity can
increase with a change is the life style.

County by county carrying capacity does not really make sense, though,
because of the interdependencies.  Butte Co, where Tim and I live, has a
huge hydro-electric plant and reservoir.  We could get by pretty well, in
terms of resources, but we have no manufacturing capacity.

In any case, I think that there is a crying need to give serious concerns
to carrying capacity, but the question is global, not local.  The people
of LA would be in serious trouble without the Colorado River, oil from the
middle east ....  An we could not do without the fabulous entertainment
that the region provides.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:38:57PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Mark Jones wrote:
>
> >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...
>
> Hmm, 27 million excess Californians. LA's population should be below
> 20,000. Where are all these people to go?
>
> Thanks for putting some numbers on the Malthusian sentiments.
>
> Doug
>

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Michael Perelman
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