Smart growth warehouses people, it doesn't improve the housing supply per se because someone has to subsidize all the smart growth housing they are building. Usually its the private individual who unknowingly buys a house for his neighbor when the cost is shifted to the price he is paying for his home. And they don't even get to pick the person they are buying the house for, the government does. Don't you think that gives the government way too much power over what is supposed to be a free market for housing?
If people knew how much smart growth was really costing America, they would revolt!
We have a smart growth development going in, in Santa Cruz County that will be 300 apartments, 700 sq feet with no kitchen. They will share a communal kitchen.
This is right in line with the UNs biodiversity treaty. It says if they are to allow us to stay an industrialized society, only a billion people should be allowed on the planet. If we want to keep our friends and family alive, we have to revert to a peasant society-- no kitchens is very medieval, doncha think"
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Posted by hedgetrimmer to pbrown
On News/Activism 02/04/2005 10:48:14 PM PST · 420 of 784
The Global Biodiversity treaty has already decided how many humans should be allowed to live on the planet.
1.An agricultural society - "in which most human beings are
peasants ... should be able to support 5 to 7 billion people..."
2.An industrialized world society - "at the North American standard of living ... would be 1 billion."
3.Semi-industrialized society - As the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible.
I believe that would be the Global Biodiversity Assessment as cited by the treaty.