Re: RE: Re: carrying capacity in California

[Stephen E Philion <philion@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, my reading of Nathan's remarks are that he is countering your
arguments, not Doug's.

Steve

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Mark Jones wrote:

> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> This is baiting, not debating. Why not address the issue? Do you disagree
> about how many cultivable acres there are in California? About the size of
> the population?
>
> Nathan Newman just said:
>
> >>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.<<
>
> Do you agree with this?
>
> Mark Jones
>
>