Comments on: Canada-ization

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Something tells me you'd still be there to celebrate on the "red mile"..... with your camera.

By: Dean Esmay

Dean Esmay — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

You have to drink their beer too. It's going to be a very tolitarian mega-city.

The point of the exercise, of course, is not that we would all actually do this, but to emphasize just how much space there really is, and how efficiently it can be used if we want to (or need to) be more efficient.

There are of course related issues we're discussing, such as providing enough energy, clean water, and so on to all the world's people. All tricky problems. But problems with, I believe, solutions, and not things we all have to panic about.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Dean: I know. But it's an amusing thought experiment!

By: Tony Rosen

Tony Rosen — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I had read someplace that you could fit the entire population of the U.S. in the state of Oregon, and everybody have a decent size house and yard ... with room to grow. So, I can see this being plausible.

By: Zygote

Zygote — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Yeah...but it's Oregon.
At least if we all move to Canada we can wear the national hairstyle -- the mullet.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

But think about the great coffee we'd get if we all lived in Oregon!

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I've been to Alberta, and it's pretty country -- but I don't think I'd care to have to share it with another 7 billion people. Y'all can divide up my patch, and I'll even take the rest of the planet off everybody's hands so they won't have to worry about it. No, no need to thank me, it's my pleasure.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

As our illustrious former governor Tom McCall once said, "Come and enjoy the beauty of Oregon--but please, don't stay!"

By: JW

JW — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Such a magnaminous gesture, McGeehee--you shouldn't have!

For the record, PJ O'Rourke did the same experiment for one of his books and showed that the country of Bangladesh and the city of Fresno, CA have exactly the same population density per acre--and helpfully provided descriptions of "rush hour" in each area. Very illuminating it was.

By: Baseball Crank

Baseball Crank — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

POLITICS: A World of Alberta
Dean Esmay makes a point that seems obvious to most North Americans, but nonetheless seems to evade European doomsayers: we are so far from the world being overcrowded that you could put the world's entire population as of 2010 in...

By: Baseball Crank

Baseball Crank — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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