permaculture

[robert waldrop <rmwj@soonernet.com>]

One thing that will happen is that many people will 'go home'.  One
reason California and other urban areas are so overpopulated is because
so many people have moved from Bug Tussle, Burns Flat, and Poteau and
now live in Hollywood, San Francisco, and Seattle.  My home county in
southwest Oklahoma used to have 30,000+ people in it before WW II, now
it has less than 10,000, but as we move to a more sustainable way of
living, its population may well increase again, at the expense of urban
areas.  Instead of urbanization, we will have ruralization.

Robert Waldrop, OKC

Anne Schwarz wrote:
> The problem is, where do those people go?  There are so many densly
> populated places that are not self sustainable.  California provides much of
> the agriculture for the world, but a good portion of the southern part of it
> would have to be depopulated.  What would we do with almost everybody in Los
> Angeles trying to transplant themselves for example?  The central valley is
> already packed enough.  In terms of food, it can probably support
> the roughly 10 million people in L.A, but what about actual living space?
> How regional is regional?
> 
> Anne
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