Greg Easterbrook is...
Check out America at 300 Million - Los Angeles Times
Greg Easterbrook is a very smart fellow, a good writer, and (like me) an optimist about the public affairs of the USA.
I believe he hangs his hat these day at the Brookings Institution.
I disagree with one idea of his. He seems concerned if America should grow to 500-600 million people. He shouldn't be.
The entire population of the world could each get an acre of land in Texas.
We are still an underpopulated country. That's why smug ones call the vast expanse of land from NYNY to LA "Flyover Country."
We know that in many parts of the de-populating Mid-West there is fully habitable land. Dear hearts and gentle people lived there and had good lives. With modern technology --- airplanes, computers, phones, EMail --- you can be most anywhere and do most anything.
A wonderful web site --- Arts and Letters ---is published from Christ Church, New Zealand. That is about as far away from NYNY of Beverly Hills as you can get.
Ben
Greg Easterbrook is a very smart fellow, a good writer, and (like me) an optimist about the public affairs of the USA.
I believe he hangs his hat these day at the Brookings Institution.
I disagree with one idea of his. He seems concerned if America should grow to 500-600 million people. He shouldn't be.
The entire population of the world could each get an acre of land in Texas.
We are still an underpopulated country. That's why smug ones call the vast expanse of land from NYNY to LA "Flyover Country."
We know that in many parts of the de-populating Mid-West there is fully habitable land. Dear hearts and gentle people lived there and had good lives. With modern technology --- airplanes, computers, phones, EMail --- you can be most anywhere and do most anything.
A wonderful web site --- Arts and Letters ---is published from Christ Church, New Zealand. That is about as far away from NYNY of Beverly Hills as you can get.
Ben
posted by Ben Wattenberg at 8:48 AM
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The entire population of the world could each get an acre of land in Texas.
China is bigger than Texas, so presumably they'd get more than an acre in China, and yet China has a one child policy. Why?
Not all land can support human habitation. And there is a limit to the carrying capacity of the land that is habitable and arable. Not to mention quality of life issues in urban areas...
I disagree with one idea of his. He seems concerned if America should grow to 500-600 million people. He shouldn't be.
I think few Americans would agree that an America with twice as many inhabitants as today would be a better place to live.
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