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Re: 60 MILLION Californians by 2040 (can anyone stop this madness?)

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From: Scott en Aztl�n
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:11
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:48:36 -0700, "Jack May" <jack.may@comcast.net>
wrote:

>
>"Scott en Aztl�n" <scottenaztlan@yahooNOSPAM.com> wrote in message 
>news:8rhsl1pp1ohumgagbbncmi7sdm50vll8qe@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:11:54 -0700, John David Galt
>> <jdg@diogenes.sacramento.ca.us> wrote:
>>
>>>Enough mindless eco-nut hysteria already.
>>>
>>>Population growth is good.  The works of Julian Simon prove it.
>>
>> And the works of Niven and Pournelle describe what it will be like.
>>
>> The only way to cram 60 million people into the areas of CA where
>> people actually want to live (i.e. near the coast where the climate is
>> good) is to build ultra-high-density housing and tow icebergs from the
>> North Atlantic into Long Beach Harbor so we can melt them down for
>> drinking water.
>
>
>60M people in California would be 1.66 acres of land per person

Yeah, but not 1.66 acres of DESIRABLE land. You planning on dumping
the next 30 million immigrants into to Mohave?

>The number of people in California is determined largely by the number of 
>jobs that are created in California.   You could drive most jobs out of 
>California by a law requiring people to use public transit to commute to and 
>from work.

I would *love* such a law! ;)
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From: Scott en Aztl�n <scottenaztlan@yahooNOSPAM.com>
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Subject: Re: 60 MILLION Californians by 2040 (can anyone stop this madness?)
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