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Posted by harry on November 29, 2009, 3:28 pm
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> > Hah! Even with the population we have, many are living in unsuitable
> > places. The only reason they can do it is that they are sustained by
> > cheap fossil fuel.
> > You can't drink seawater. Cheap fossil fuel can make it drinkable but
> > as we all know it's gonna run out at some point.
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> Dance all you want. It was you who wrote::"There's nowhere left to export
> surplus population". I think I, and at least one other, have made the point
> that there are plenty of places to export surplus population. Energy & water
> are other matters for discussion, but we are NOT yet running out of real
estate.
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> > The farms mentioned above are only there ...
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> I said nothing about "farms". Actually I wrote "poor farmland". While there
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> some agriculture in the area, the land I was describing is 99% unused real
> estate; miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles. Western Texas is so
> massive and so empty that if you haven't seen it with your own eyes, it is
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> hard for the human mind to comprehend.
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> > You might want to plot your graphs & see whether we run out of water
> > first or fuel.
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> I will leave that to you.
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> Vaughn
I have travelled extensively in Australia. Dwarfs even Texas. There
used to be a "farm" there that was bigger than the whole of Texas.
So I can probably comprehend little old Texas as we crossed
Australia by bus. Largely uninhabitable in the middle bit. It took
many days and it became very boring.
I have also crossed the Sahara desert. Even more uninhabitable. But
actually more interesting (geographically & ethnically).
These areas were once fertile well watered plains and not too long ago
in the Sahara. Interesting to see the effects of desertification.
The point I am making is population can't be exported to the remaining
uninhabitable areas.
So whilst there might be vacant "real estate" in Texas and elsewhere
it may just as well not exist. It is valueless except perhaps for
mineral wealth.
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