On 01/13/2014 04:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I looked at their website and they talk about numbers like 2000 square feet > and 2 acres. Tearing out a whole backroad (I can think of some in the > Oregon country that might as well go) would seem to require dump trucks and > pavement pulverizers. Million dollar investments. And of course unless the > idea is to be an eco-terrorists, that would require approvals from the > county.
You're leaving out the time variable. While it's true that tearing out an entire backroad in a minimal amount of time would require such an investment, it's not necessarily true if you simply allow the regional domains the road crosses to do whatever they want with that region of the road. Perhaps an equivalent amount of money/effort would be spent when summed over all the little efforts, over the entire time (decades? centuries?). Perhaps not. In any case, the larger governmental bodies could simply relinquish their claims and let it go "fallow", as it were. -- ⇒⇐ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
