Re:Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:37PM
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You still need to give those people roads, maybe even sewer rather than having them use a horrible septic tank. They will probably want internet as well...and not the crappy satellite variety. And schools...ya, that’s a lot of bussing.
Western Washington state subsidizes Eastern Washington state greatly, and that isn’t even as sparse as South Dakota (or as I like to call it, Tropical Dakota).
Re:Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
by nknezek on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:10PM
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There are 57.5 million square miles of land on Earth, including mountains, deserts, rainforests, national parks, tundra, and Antarctica. There are currently 7.4 billion people. This works out to ~4.9 acres per person of land of any type.
World arable land is ~26.2 million square miles, or about 2.2 acres per person. At 11 billion people (projection world population peak by ~2100, you get about 1.5 acres of arable land per person. There is literally, physically not enough space on Earth to put your plane into action.
I like nature, but I think you underestimate the subsidies given for rural development and infrastructure and just how unsustainable our development style in the US is.
Re:Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
by jacobolus on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:52PM
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> encourage each family to own a mostly-untouched >5 acres
There will soon be 11 billion people in the world.
This is a pipe dream, but if it came to fruition it would wreck the planet very quickly.
I think you massively overestimate the rural "subsidies". Make it easy to move rural and "go green" with minimal regulations, and you may find the problems nearly solve themselves.