Mexico City?
Don Steehler
>Jordi Sod <jo...@mail.internet.com.mx> wrote:
>>Er... one question. How many people can Wyoming or the NW territories
>>support? Sure there are empty places in the world. They are empty because
>>not many people can make a living there. If you can make the Sahara desert an
>>agricultural area as productive as the Ganges plains, go right ahead. If
>>not, you better try not to have lots of children.
>>Regards from a city with 2/3 the population of Canada,
>If Mexico City can support twenty million people, I don't see why
>Wyoming can't support thirty.
>
> -dlj.
>
Considering the conditional form of the statement, it would probably
be helpful to consider Mexico City. Here's the URL for a recent news
item:
"Mexico's precious water runs to waste"
http://www.desnews.com/wir/xmewa15.htm
**
More about Mexico City's "air" can be found at URL:
"Air in Mexico City: A Strange Brew"
David Lloyd-Jones
>d...@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones) wrote:
>>If Mexico City can support twenty million people, I don't see why
>>Wyoming can't support thirty.
>>
>> -dlj.
>>
>Considering the conditional form of the statement, it would probably
>be helpful to consider Mexico City. Here's the URL for a recent news
>item:
>"Mexico's precious water runs to waste"
>http://www.desnews.com/wir/xmewa15.htm
>**
>More about Mexico City's "air" can be found at URL:
>"Air in Mexico City: A Strange Brew"
>http://www.nwu.edu/ezines/teletimes/mexico_air.html
I think I can probably guess what these URLs lead to.
One thing that puzzles me is how Singapore and New Delhi both run on
sewage systems built by the British Army on the assumptions of 100 and
150 years ao. Singapore's is functioning, and New Delhi's while it
has been overwhelmed by the population nevertheless serves millions of
people. What on Earth were the original builders thinking about?
In somewhat the same vein, Toronto a few years extended its subway
system under The Danforth, a street which crosses the Don Valley at an
altitude of a couple or three hundred feet. The bridge across was
built in 1919, and yet the original builders had spent $19,000, a
million or so in modern money, to prepare the bridge to support an
electric railway. Where do we get more builders like these?
When Japan faced mass urbanisation after WWII (the country was half
rural in 1945, and also faced the repatriation of settlers from the
lost empire China and Korea), they built a supplemental radio and TV
network of rural repeaters dedicated to teaching people about urban
life. In the early sixties, once the population, basically, had moved
they shut it down. Where do we get people who can build machines to
ease transitions?
That's what will/can/might make a difference when we populate the
Rockies -- where I'd love to be a settler in my cabin by the satellite
dish. If we build for the future, if we save cost by spending that
extra $19,000, if we dream up machinery like those transitional
broadcast nets, then we and the environment win. If not, not.
-dlj.