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- From: dlo@druwa.ATT.COM (OlsonDL)
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- Subject: Re: VOTE, BABY, VOTE!
- Message-ID: <22549@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:47:31 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.165032.23500@mercury.cair.du.edu> <adams.721933831@spssig> <BxxJFK.Aop@hfglobe.intel.com>
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- In article <BxxJFK.Aop@hfglobe.intel.com>, labelle@hfglobe.intel.com (George La Belle) writes:
- } >fact we will if things don't get under control, but we're not at a crisis
- } >point yet. Just go out to Wyoming or Montana, and you'll see that there's
- } >still plenty of room. People are crowded together because they choose to
- }
- } Tired old argument. It takes 10 acres of farmland to sustain
- } each person.
-
- Nonsense. 10 acres is 435,600 sq. ft. That means over 1192 sq. ft. of
- land per day. Or over 397 sq. ft. per meal.
-
- I have a vegetable garden in the back yard that measures just about that
- 397 sq.ft., and I assure you that while the food I get from it doesn't
- sustain me year around, it provides enough food to last considerably
- longer than just one meal.
- --
- David Olson dlo@druwa.ATT.COM
- "Keep in mind that I am speaking from Cambridge Massachusetts, which is
- about as far out as you can get." Robert Reich, economic advisor to
- Bill Clinton, on "This Week with David Brinkley" 11/08/92
-