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- From: jahn@guinness.Idbsu.EDU (Greg Jahn)
- Subject: Re: Multiplying in the Backcountry (kids/population)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.181912.25837@guinness.idbsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: jahn@guinness.Idbsu.EDU (Greg Jahn)
- Organization: Boise State University
- References: <2931360867.1.p00004@psilink.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:19:12 GMT
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- In article <2931360867.1.p00004@psilink.com>,
- "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com> writes:
- |> >DATE: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:50:51 GMT
- |> >FROM: Greg Jahn <jahn@guinness.Idbsu.EDU>
- |> [....]
- |> > It sure seems to me
- |> >that everywhere I've gone there are more people now than before,
- |> >I've certainly seen very distintive changes here, both in town AND
- |> >in the backcountry ... [....]
- |> > the FACT is population HAS profoundly affected the entry
- |> >points to roadless backcountry here in Idaho. So, who cares what the
- |> >statistics and population models say? LOOK AROUND!
- |>
- |> Your toolbox of concepts obviously includes that of population growth,
- |> but you might want to consider adding to it the concept of population
- |> movement. The latter can, in some cases, produce local instances of the
- |> former. In the last few decades, the US population has notoriously shown
- |> a tendency to move West and South, a trend quite clearly encouraged, if
- |> not entirely created, by policy. So your anguish might actually have its
- |> origin in something other than the statistically invisible
- |> philoprogenitiveness of North Americans.
-
- My toolbox includes eyeballs, and I try to use them. I'm aware of the
- population shift stuff, but this does not dispute the fact that population
- increases have affected my immediate surroundings, and the effects of
- this are mostly irreversible.
-
- Scenario - Pristine New York pre-city, then present New York City,
- current pristine undeveloped parts of the West, then
- 'hey, I want outa here, it's all messed up, I'll
- build a house
- out west', then messed up New York City, population
- shift
- out west, messing up out west, then, out west messed
- up,
-
- 'GEE, WHERE DO I GO NOW?????'
-
- btw, regardless of the shiftiness of your perspective, I still think we got's
- more people today than we did ten years ago, ... don't you?
-
-
- Please, ... this is all meant in good humor, ....
-
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