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Re: Dominant Form of Transportation

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From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 02:15
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John Higdon wrote:
> People who live in urban areas tend to forget that a significant amount of
> this nation's population does not live in major cities, jammed up one
> against the other. For that matter, most of California is open space. Urban
> transit only works, surprisingly enough, in urban areas.

My point, in the other part of this thread, was that drastic changes in
the availability of energy or the capacity of the environment to accept
greenhouse gas emissions might result, by necessity, in people jamming
up in the cities.  Not necessarily pleasant, but more pleasant than
running out of energy altogether, or turning the Earth into another
Venus.
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Subject: Re: Dominant Form of Transportation
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