tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post7744243910140747893..comments2023-12-07T00:44:23.610-08:00Comments on The Trojan Heron: Countdown to CAOmageddon: Flaw #5 - The Bigger PictureECKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13031277544085651063noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-35277288300897846232012-08-07T20:41:37.715-07:002012-08-07T20:41:37.715-07:00For several years I have been been gobsmacked by t...For several years I have been been gobsmacked by the doom of island population growth. Huh? What's that? Not that I want it here, but San Francisco has over eight hundred thousand living on less acreage than SJI. Wait, before you cast that off as a completely unrelated and obscene comparison SF does have a land mass items in common on SJI. Mostly surrounded by water and hilly.<br /><br />The point is that SJI has an a very,very low population and for those of you that want to keep it that way, that's OK, but you must understand that in order to maintain basic services, like schools and stores and such you need a reasonable population base.<br /><br />Saltspring Island in Canada is a bit bigger than SJI and has several thousand more people. My guess from a bit a reading is that Salt Spring residents are even more environmental than here...can you believe it...yet their island has almost no vacant shops, and the place just feels a whole lot more with it.<br /><br />With the vision of a Howie Rosenfeld why do we even have a County Fair? Won't everyone be glued to a computer screen in a few years? Cows, Horses, Sheep, Pigs, production of food stuffs, who needs that crap, we have the internet...well until the power goes out... right Howard?<br /><br />So is this a hatchet job on Mr. Rosenfeld. Not at all. He needs no help with that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com