RE: [GBlist] farming or housing?

["McDonell, Geoff" <GMcDonell@earthtech.ca>]

Chris:  at the risk of fanning some flames on the extreme ends of the Green
Movement, I as a simple engineer would postulate the following:

Building dwellings on marginal land where no food crops could be farmed, or
cattle could be grazed, or free range chickens could peck is likely not a
high impact strain on the planet.  However, I would like to ask how much
driving you do to and from your country retreat to and from "civilization"?
If you are close enough to walk and take public transit, great, or close
enough to a town center to ride a bike, great, too.  But the big impact of
suburban sprawl is the emissions from all the automobile engines getting
people to and from that little low impact place in the country.  Cheers, G.
McD.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Koehn [mailto:chris@koehn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:55 PM
To: GB List
Subject: [GBlist] farming or housing?


I'd like to post a question in hopes of eliciting thoughtful response from
this thoughtful group:

Is farming really a greener use for land than building houses?

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