[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Wotsit
- From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:30:24 -0400
> 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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