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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!tillage!gil
- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725620074snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <1992Dec29.000313.714@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 09:07:54 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <1992Dec29.000313.714@pbhye.PacBell.COM> mjvande@PacBell.COM writes:
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- > >to the global problems we have. On the other hand, you might like to
- > >visit Guangzhou during peak-hour; getting stuck in a traffic jam of
- > >*bicycles* clogging up a four lane highway for literally miles, with
- > >whole convoys of trucks and official vehicles just stuck there until
- > >it clears, is no rational idea of progress whatsoever.
- >
- > Why not? would you prefer all the bicyclists to be in cars? You make
- > no sense.
-
- Well, I have made no effort to make sense here. The entire thread is
- nonsense. The matter is rather concerned with what all those people
- stuck there on their bicycles want, yes?
-
- They are the ones who will finally make the decisions about it, in a
- city in which buses breakdown at every intersection, where underground
- railways cannot be built lest the miriad ancient tombs beneath will be
- disturbed, and overhead railways cannot be built through the sheer high
- density of housing apartments, and a massive economic revival based on
- consumerism currently taking place, and with Japan just across the way
- on an aggressive auto industry sales drive, I wonder what they will opt
- for?
-
- The population of Guangzhou alone is about 42,000,000, some 2.5 times
- the entire population of Australia. I guess the problem is just a tad
- bigger than you and me, Dr Vandeman.
-
- On the other hand, of course, none of them can drive a car yet.
-
- Gil
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