Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System and National Emissions of] (fwd)

[Michael Perelman]

I just read that NY City is the largest consumer of pesticides in the state.
Now that you have that part of the agricultural system, may the rest won't be
too hard.

Doug Henwood wrote:

>
> It's weird to hear this coming from someone who lives & works on
> Manhattan Island, but I'll leave that aside for now, along with my
> suspicion that a lot of this is the fantasy of an exhausted and
> alienated urbanite.
>
> I don't see how you can achieve a William Morris-y arts & crafts
> lifestyle with a global population of 6 billion people. Maybe I'm
> wrong. If I'm not wrong, what is the ideal population, and what will
> happen to all the surplus billions?
>
> Doug

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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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