From: steve (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 08:23:54 MST
Vanessa wrote (in a very interesting post for me)
But I thought it was interesting how everyone's (false) perceptions
tend to be warped in the same way - like they all grumble the same
complaints & share the same attitudes about what they consider to be
population "problems." So then I started to think about what specific things
made me think there was a population problem to begin with - <snip various
causes>
. But the most basic thing (which totally eluded me) is that many people
actually choose to live & gather in densely populated areas.
This is clearly true, once you think about it. So one question is why are
people not aware of this? I suspect one reason is the immense ignorance of
geography that you find these days. I suspect another reason, particularly
in places like N.America, is that people do so much travelling by flying.
This gives you a distorted impression of both the size of the world and of
how much of it is effectively empty. If you go on the Trans Siberian you
soon realise there are huge amounts of MAMBA country (Miles And Miles of
Bugger All). Steve Davies
So I guess the answer is rather simple: if you don't like it, move! There
are plenty of other places to go.
This is the other question - why don't they? I suppose there are many
reasons but surely the principal factor is economics - the densely populated
parts of the planet are where jobs (and hence income) are to be found, as
well as many other services which require not just a lot of people but high
density. Steve D.
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