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Re: NFC: Re: "The Burbs"



They will care when the water runs out. They thought losing power was bad,
what about having no water?

Wally
----- Original Message -----
From: jake levi <jlevi_us at yahoo_com>
To: <nfc at actwin_com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: NFC: Re: "The Burbs"


> Then you remember Escondido as a pretty little town.
> My big complaint is the irrigating of ornamentals for
> artificial aesthetics. I also still get heartburn from
> the irrigated cotton around Phoenix. The oranges of
> orange cnty have been yanked out and replaced with
> higher selling avocadoes which are now over producing
> so they trash millions of lbs every year. Urban sprawl
> is another major mess and its also drawing down the
> aquifirs.
>
> and no-one gives a damn. at least not enough to do
> anything about or for it. The politicians are the last
> ones who are going to open thier yellow mealymouths.
> jake
> --- David Meyers <dmeyers at salts_navy.mil> wrote:
> > It isn't just Southern California...
> > Take a look at Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tuscon.
> > Take a look at the rice fields of northern
> > California, the cotton fields of
> > Central Califonia, the tomatoes out in Yuma - these
> > are all damaging the
> > environment in one way or another.
> > Urban sprawl in Georgia and the Carolinas around
> > every lake and river...
> > Hawaii itself...enough exotics there to ensure mass
> > extinction...
> > We can go on and on, the problem is sprawl - instead
> > of recycling land -
> > urban blight areas, we find it easier to go to
> > undeveloped or agricultural
> > land to build...away from all that.  When I first
> > showed up in San Diego in
> > 66, it was mostly farm and ranch land, and the
> > problems you detail below,
> > were quite insignificant - that has all changed now.
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/12/02 6:55 AM, "jake levi" <jlevi_us at yahoo_com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Arlus, one correction,
> > > you should have written all of Southern California
> > and
> > > much of Central. The irrigation of ice plants and
> > > other exotics on highway medians is a disgrace.
> > > California has a 'mediteranean' climate and they
> > want
> > > it to be Hawaii.
> > > The water isnot there to do it so they are
> > draining
> > > much of the western aquifer for ornamental
> > irrigation.
> > >
> > > The national disgrace is about to become a
> > national
> > > disaster.
> > > jake
> > > --- Arlus Farnsworth <arlusf at cwnet_com> wrote:
> > >> Just a quick comment... suburbia is known to
> > replace
> > >> native vegetation
> > >> with imported exotics, usually not palatable to
> > >> local wildlife needs,
> > >> hence an ornamental desert functionally. Green
> > lawns
> > >> in the desert is a
> > >> perfectly horrid extreme of this mentality. Case
> > in
> > >> point, the city
> > >> state and country of LA.
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> And this all started out because the project is
> > >> REPLACING the wetlands and a
> > >>> rookery
> > >>> SamB
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> Boo
> > >>> I dont see the 'burbs being trashed into garbage
> > >> dumps
> > >>> at quite the same rate as the 'low cost housing
> > >>> developments'.
> > >
> > >
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