View Single Post
Old 06-20-2009, 10:20 PM   #24 (permalink)
captainslug
Misanthropologist
 
captainslug's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Sterling, VA
Posts: 383

BORK! - '89 Volvo 240 DL Wagon
90 day: 21.27 mpg (US)
Thanks: 2
Thanked 24 Times in 13 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by blueflame View Post
Cities are the real problem. Decentralise away from the factory farms! Head for the hills! Pig flue and plagues would never happen! Respiration problems, obesity, pollution...nearly all our diseases would disappear
I'm sorry but that's complete baloney.
While certain segments of the meat production industry are over-engineered to the point of being dangerous (pig farms and meat-processing in particular) there's nothing you can do to completely eliminate any of those maladies, nor is there any way to completely negate the potential for plagues.
Cities are not the cause of any of those, nor would getting away from current zoning methods do any thing to drastically improve them.

However I am in agreement that there is a point at which populations become too dense.
  Reply With Quote