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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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3. I don't think it can be done.

Reply to NickB79 (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 04:06 PM

Sep 2015

I don't present the arguments above as doable in any way, shape or form. They are intended to illustrate the unbridgeable gap that has opened between the necessary and the possible.

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We Are All Chinese Now [View all] GliderGuider Sep 2015 OP

Yep. I agree with many elements of that "plan." hunter Sep 2015 #1

A question regarding re-ruralification and transport NickB79 Sep 2015 #2

I don't think it can be done. GliderGuider Sep 2015 #3

You know� it�s funny� OKIsItJustMe Sep 2015 #4

Yeah, I grew up watching "Little House on the Prairie" too NickB79 Sep 2015 #6

Actually, I never did watch �Little House on the Prairie� OKIsItJustMe Sep 2015 #8

And if you're 75 years old with arthritic hips? Or a mother carrying two sick children? nt GliderGuider Sep 2015 #9

What did arthritic 75 year olds do 150 years ago? OKIsItJustMe Sep 2015 #10

In my own daydream world... hunter Sep 2015 #5

There's a decent chance that some part of the world will go through a time like that. GliderGuider Sep 2015 #7