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- From: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Ecocentric Criterion and the Population Question
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 02:14:17 GMT
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- References: <1466601882@igc.apc.org> <1992Nov6.163716.26393@meteor.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
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- In article <1992Nov6.163716.26393@meteor.wisc.edu>, tobis@meteor.wisc.edu
- (Michael Tobis) writes:
- |> This is a nice interdisciplinary question. My suspicion is that land
- |> use is the bottleneck, and that by the way domestic garbage disposal is not
- |> a significant factor. Am I right? If so, what per capita economic land
- |> use (with current technologies) is required to support a lifestyle
- |> that most would consider affluent? Is is possible to consider a world
- |> in which there is little use of private long-distance vehicles as affluent?
- |> (I suspect this would turn out to yield a spectacular increase in the
- |> sustainable population. Am I right?)
- |>
- |> mt
-
- I certainly agree. It takes far more land to extract/manufacture/use
- materials and products than it does to throw them into a hole in
- the ground, and (hazardous household waste aside) the making/using
- creates far more economic and environmental burdens.
- I've often wondered what land area all current and all former
- landfills use in the U.S., for comparison to other land uses. Anyone know?
-
- Does anyone have good references to discussions of the land
- requirements of different kinds of human activity? (along
- with the relative impact and sustainability).
-
- Bruce Nordman
- B_Nordman@lbl.gov
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