Re: Overpopulation a Hoax

Thanks, Fred B. McGalliard... I think he's waging a one man battle, but then on
some level or another, everyone does now and then about this or that. It's a
minefield of mental illness here in www post-ville. Peace to you, Marc


> "Marc Mulay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Fred...
> > Statements like; "California, which is preparing to pave over its most
> > fertile cropland...", give one the impression that you are a paranoid
> > shut-in with a pyschiatric disorder of some kind.
>
> I have driven over California's most fertile croplands a number of times in
> a number of different directions. California has already plowed under (not
> paved over) the Owens valley to suck up the water for LA, but this happened
> around 40 years ago at least. Most of the rest of the fertile crop land is
> so vast that you would find it hard to dig up enough pavement to pave even a
> significant part of it, so dry you would only have to pump the water down to
> ravenous LA to destroy it, and in any case, is not even close to any city of
> any size (does the name weed ring a bell?), so what on earth would you pave
> it for? This kind of comment would have applied to the region of Kent, south
> of Seattle, perhaps 30 years ago, but today the paving is mostly finished
> and all the farms moved out to the desert. It turns out to be easier to turn
> desert into fertile cropland far from the city, if you have water, than to
> hang on in the face of the strong demand for decent housing. So I agree
> Marc, this statement by the other Fred does sound a bit off kilter.