Re: Dominant Form of Transportation

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From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 12:29

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John Higdon wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Interesting concept for apocalyptic sci-fi, but hardly something to fret
> about happening anytime soon.

No, it isn't.  My comment specifically said 50 years.  I don't see any
chance of it happening in the next 25 years.

> Besides, if it comes to that, we're through
> before we start. Our cities could never, under any circumstances,
> accommodate all those additional people who don't live in them now.

But new cities, or expanded cities, could.  If car transportation
becomes non-viable, then large parts of suburbia revert to farmland and
people will concentrate where they can get around without cars.  Again,
not happening any time soon.

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