[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Wotsit

> The paving over of exurbia and concomitant destruction of wetlands and
>habitats (every hear of the housing boom?) is very
>much affecting groundwater.  The U.S. is today
>virtually one huge suburb.

You're living in a fantasyworld!

>Still, I'm
>  talking about the U.S., and here in the U.S. we are
>  one great big highway from coast to coast with all the
>  roads in between.  Water cannot penetrate paved roads,
>  and the paved roads had once been wetlands.  Jimminy
>  Cricket I wish it weren't so.  But it is.
>

No, actually, you are NOT one great big highway. Have you ever been to
Montana? Wyoming? Idaho? Kansas? North Dakota? Minnesota? These are
HUGE states in area and they have no population.

p
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